Perfect Egg Mayonnaise?

Cossy, I am with your daughter 100%. Mayo is just tasteless fat in my opinion. No wonder you have to add so much to it to get any flavour!

Bazza

I think I could happily live on what my family call squishy egg sandwiches. I have a brilliant egg slicer, after slicing I turn in around and slice it the other way so not too much squishing to do. Add salt and pepper, a little mayo and salad cream. Also any salad vegetables if available. Heaven.

My late MiL had a great egg slicer - unfortunately, when she moved into a nursing home and we were clearing out the house, my idiot of a husband threw it out, because I'd had my eye on it!

Tiniest amount of mayo just to stick the egg together, mash with a fork, salt and pepper....and chopped cold water prawns! Not strictly an egg sandwich but totally delicious

I think I could happily live on what my family call squishy egg sandwiches. I have a brilliant egg slicer, after slicing I turn in around and slice it the other way so not too much squishing to do. Add salt and pepper, a little mayo and salad cream. Also any salad vegetables if available. Heaven.

I also add to the eggs and mayo - finely chopped gherkins and sometimes chopped capers..

We add chopped spring onion as well (as a Jewish dish). Also tahini and sometimes chopped picked cucumber. It is delicious but the onion makes it rather ant-social, so I wouldn’t take it to work!

An extra egg yolk, cress and full mayo with just a bit of ground white pepper. Butter bread in just one side.

Does anyone make their own mayonnaise?

I’m still a bit annoyed after an incident when a lot of us were staying at a BiL’s huge place in France. BiL was hosting an alfresco lunch for several locals, as well as us, and I offered to make my usual potato salad - which invariably vanishes PDQ. I always add chopped chives, or the green of spring onions, and lemon juice, plus a little S+P, to the mayonnaise.

While I was mid-make, I realised that there wasn’t enough mayonnaise, so said I was nipping to the local supermarket for more.

Another BiL - a Francophile and Foodie with a capital F, almost screamed, ‘NOOOO!’ - you’d think I was suggesting going out for ground glass or arsenic!

He insisted on making mayonnaise with eggs, olive oil, etc. and I don’t know what he did or didn’t do, but it just tasted oily, so lacking in flavour, and most of my potato salad, that usually vanishes, was left uneaten and ended up in the bin.

Needless to say, any other time I will be much firmer about making it my own way!

It’s the salt and pepper that’s important.

eggs mayo cress that’s it.

I really don't like the "light" version of their mayonnaise.
I used to make my own when the "children" lived at home.
Now just keep a jar in the fridge.

For seven of us I used to get out the potato masher and mash the eggs into the mayonnaise in a flat bottomed bowl with some extra (black) pepper.

NO tomatoes with egg mayo!!! 😱😱
...just watercress or rocket occasionall.!

We buy our mayonnaise from the international section in Tesco, its Polish, much nicer than Helman's.
As for the sandwich filler.
Eggs, half and half salad cream and mayonnaise or Heinz sandwich spread if I have any. A little salt and pepper.

Witzend

Freshly only just hard boiled eggs, mashed with mayonnaise (Helman’s), salt and pepper, in nice fresh buttered bread probably granary or seeded.
The essential extra is either cress or lettuce (chopped). Or both.

Have Helmans changed their recipe? It tastes odd now, not how I remember it.

No potatoes in Mums sandwiches !

eggs, mayo or cream, salt and pepper and a smidgeon of curry powder.

Chopped spring onion and a dash of dijon mustard with the mayo. And salt.

My Mum used to make egg and tomatoe sandwiches. Boiled egg, salad cream and mashed potatoes unskinned tomatoes. All mashed together , pinch of salt. Heaven !

I never add anything but DH likes his with salad cream rather than mayo - philistine.

Dd2 does a fabulous one with chopped bacon. Mine isn't half as good as hers so it's a treat every time she comes.

Onion!🧅 gasp of horror

In Northern Ireland, they add chopped onion. I don’t think I have ever seen an egg mayonnaises sandwich without onion.
Personally, I enjoy egg and tomato. The tomatoes need to be diced though.

Oreo

Nothing added Cossy as I’m a purist when it comes to egg sandwiches 😄 not even cress.

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Freshly only just hard boiled eggs, mashed with mayonnaise (Helman’s), salt and pepper, in nice fresh buttered bread probably granary or seeded.
The essential extra is either cress or lettuce (chopped). Or both.

Nothing added Cossy as I’m a purist when it comes to egg sandwiches 😄 not even cress.

I like the touch of chilli flakes 👌

Cossy

So, I’ve just made some for our sandwich tonight, as we had our main meal at lunch time.

This is what I do,

Shell hard boiled eggs (for two of us I use four medium sized free range)
Cut them into pieces in a large bowl.
Add Mayonnaise (Helmens light)
Add a tiny bit of butter
Salt
Pepper
Cayenne Pepper
Sometimes some dried crushed chillies.

Mash up well.

Add to lightly buttered brown or granary bread, cut into two or four.

Gobble up.

How do you make yours (if you eat it)

My daughter uses just hard boiled eggs and salad cream 🤮🤮

Few crisps in the side