HORSERADISH CREAM SAUCE
By Gloria Pitzer, as seen in… Gloria Pitzer’s Cookbook – Best Of The Recipe Detective (Balboa Press; Jan. 2018, p. 191). [A revised reprint of Gloria Pitzer’s Better Cookery Cookbook (Secret RecipesTM, St. Clair, MI; May 1983, 3rd Edition).]
I like to use Shedd’s Old-Style Sauce or the Kraft brand for this hot, but creamy sauce. In many parts of the world, my readers can’t always find our American products, so I attempted an at-home version.
INGREDIENTS:
5-ounce bottle horseradish
½ cup light vinegar
1 teaspoon hot pepper sauce
6 tablespoons sugar
1 teaspoon onion powder
½ teaspoon garlic powder
2 teaspoon salt
½ teaspoon pepper
1 cup Hellman’s or Kraft’s mayonnaise
¼ cup corn oil
1 cup cold water
¼ cup cornstarch
2 raw egg yolks
¼ cup margarine
INSTRUCTIONS:
Put the first 8 ingredients through a blender on high for 1 minute or until smooth. Pour into a bowl and set aside. In another bowl, combine mayonnaise and oil, beating with electric mixer on medium speed, until well-mixed. Set this aside too.
Put water, cornstarch and egg yolks through the blender on high-speed about 30 seconds. When smooth, pour into 1 ½-quart sauce pan and stir in the first mixture of 8 ingredients. Turn heat to medium-high, stirring constantly until thickened and it resembles a pudding.
Remove from heat. Cool for 15 minutes or to lukewarm. Stir in mayonnaise, beating on lowest speed of electric mixer to combine. Then beat in margarine – very gently, on lowest speed. If you beat it too vigorously or at too high of a speed, it tends to thin-out!
Pour into a quart-sized jar and cap tightly. Refrigerate it for 24 hours before using. This allows it to thicken, and for flavors to blend properly. Makes 1 quart. Keeps refrigerated up to 6 weeks, if tightly covered. Do not freeze this sauce.
NOTE: if you do not have a blender, you can use an electric mixer, keeping the speed on high, where directed for blending on high-speed and so on. The blender, however, produces a smoother product!
See also…
Mondays & Memories of My Mom – Somewhere In Sweet Summertime
