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Definition: Mayonnaise |
MayonnaiseNoun1. Egg yolks and oil and vinegar. Source: WordNet 1.7.1 Copyright © 2001 by Princeton University. All rights reserved. |
Date "mayonnaise" was first used in popular English literature: sometime before 1869. (references) |
Etymology: Mayonnaise \Ma`yon`naise"\, noun. [French expression]. (Websters 1913) |
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Satire | MAYONNAISE, n. One of the sauces which serve the French in place of a state religion. Source: Devil's Dictionary. |
Literature | Mayonnaise A sauce made with pepper, salt, oil, vinegar, and the yolk of an egg beaten up together. A "may" in French is a cullender or strainer, also a "fort planeher sur lequel on met les raisins qu' on veut fouler." Source: Brewer's Dictionary. |
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(From Wikipedia, the free Encyclopedia)
In cooking, mayonnaise is a thick, white, creamy, cold sauce; an emulsion of fat (originally olive oil, now usually vegetable oil) suspended in a matrix of egg yolks, flavored with vinegar or lemon juice, and seasonings.
Mayonnaise is made by slowly introducing oil into the other liquids while whisking vigorously to break up the fat into small droplets that will become dispersed in the liquid. The egg yolks provide lecithin, which stabilizes the emulsion. It is then seasoned with salt and sometimes other seasonings.
Mayonnaise is only eaten cold, for instance on sandwiches (mainly in North America) and on French fries (mainly in northern Europe). It is also often used as a base for many other cold sauces with more varied ingredients. Aioli, for example, is a garlic-flavored mayonnaise. Popular herbed mayonnaises include tartar sauce. Many salad dressings are mayonnaise-based, including "Russian" dressing which is a combination of mayonnaise with tomato sauce, and "Thousand Island", which is Russian dressing with pickles and herbs.
Homemade mayonnaise can approach 75% fat before the emulsion breaks down; commercial mayonnaises are more typically 65-70% fat. Commercial products typically replace much or all of the egg yolk with water, requiring the addition of lecithin or other emulsifiers from sources such as soy (some commercial mayonnaises may thus be appropriate for vegans). "Low fat" mayonnaise products contain starches, cellulose gel, or other ingredients to simulate the texture of real mayonnaise.
Since homemade mayonnaise contains raw egg yolks, it poses a danger of salmonella poisoning. Commercial producers pasteurize the yolks, or freeze them, and substitute water for most of their liquid, or use other emulsifiers. At home, be sure to use the freshest eggs possible, and thoroughly clean them before use. Some stores sell pasteurized eggs for home use. You can also coddle the eggs in 170° water and remove the hot yolks from the whites which will have cooked slightly. Homemade mayonnaise will only keep under refrigeration for three to four days. A lower-fat version can be made with "silken" tofu.
Commercial mayonnaise sold in jars was born on Manhattan's Upper West Side. In 1905, the first ready-made mayonnaise was sold at Richard Hellman's delicatessen on Columbus Avenue, between 83rd and 84th Streets. In 1912, Mrs Hellman's mayonnaise was mass marketed and called "Hellman's Blue Ribbon Mayonnaise."
The origin of sauce Mayonnaise. 'Mayonnaise' made its English-language debut in a cookbook of 1841. Mayonnaise is generally said to have been created by the chef of the Duc de Richelieu in 1756 to celebrate the Duc's victory over the British at the port of Mahon (the capital of Minorca in the Balearic Islands); it is supposedly from that port's name that the word mayonnaise is derived. But this often-repeated story seems flawed.
Anton Careme speculated in 1833 that the name was derived from the French word manier, meaning 'to handle, to feel, to ply,' thus possibly in this case 'to stir or blend'. Careme appears to have been reaching for an etymology for sauce 'Mayonnaise' . It is inconceivable that Careme, trained by the greatest patissier in Napoleonic Paris, and chef d'hotel to the duc de Talleyrand, with whom he spent an hour each morning working out the day's menus, at whose table Careme virtually created French haute cuisine, should have been unaware of the fact, if mayonnaise had actually been created as recently as 1756. Indeed, Talleyrand himself had already held a bishopric under the Ancien Regime, was a fastidious connoisseur of the table and moved in much the same circles as the Richelieu family. The origin of 'mayonnaise' must be much older than 1756, if it was oscure to Careme.
In fact it may appear more credible that sauce Mayonnaise was originally named for Charles of Lorraine, Duke of Mayenne (in northwest France), who presided over the meeting of the Estates General in January 1593 that had been summoned for the purpose of choosing a Catholic ruler for France. The sauce may have remained unnamed until after the Battle of Arques in 1589. It may then have been christened “Mayennaise” in 'honor' of Charles de Lorraine, duc de Mayenne, because he took the time to finish his meal of chicken with cold sauce before being defeated in battle by Henri IV.
It should be noted that the duc de Mayenne's close ally at the head of the Catholic party in France during the Wars of Religion, was the Quuen Mother, Catherine de' Medici, who is generally credited with introducing into Parisian cooking olive oil, which was as traditional in the queen's native Italy as butter and lard were in the Ile-de-France.
Source: adapted by the editor from Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia under a copyleft GNU Free Documentation License (GFDL) from the article "Mayonnaise."
Crosswords: Mayonnaise |
| English words defined with "mayonnaise": aioli, aioli sauce ♦ deviled egg, dressing ♦ garlic sauce, green mayonnaise ♦ half-and-half dressing ♦ Remoulad, remoulade sauce, Russian dressing, Russian mayonnaise ♦ salad dressing, sauce Louis, sauce verte, stuffed egg ♦ tartar sauce, tartare sauce, Thousand Island dressing ♦ Waldorf salad. (references) |
| Specialty definitions using "mayonnaise": mayonnaise. (references) |
| Non-English Usage: "Mayonnaise" is also a word in the following languages with English translations in parentheses. French (mayonnaise), German (mayonnaise, salad cream). |
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Screenplays | tuna fish on white bread with mayonnaise, a Tab, and a couple of Twinkies. (The Jerk; writing credit: Carl Reiner, written by Steve Martin and Carl Gottlieb.) Okay, Sweetie, hand me the mayonnaise out of the fridge. (My Girl; writing credit: Laurice Elehwany. Starring Dan Aykroyd as Harry Sultenfuss, Jamie Lee Curtis as Shelly DeVoto, Macaulay Culkin as Thomas J. Sennett, and Anna Chlumsky as Vada Sultenfuss.) Ah, that's not yogurt, that's mayonnaise (Notting Hill; writing credit: Richard Curtis) Put this mayonnaise in the sun! (The Simpsons; writing credit: Artur Brauner; Paul Hengge) Mayonnaise is more than sandwich spread. (AlfTales; writing credit: Bradley Kesden; Mitchell Kriegman) | |
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 | Shown is marinated beef steak with potato vegetable salad. Choose lean cuts of meat and trim all fat. Serve fruit for dessert. Potato salad can be made with low fat dressing instead of mayonnaise. This was a poster in the "Healthy Eating Tips" series. See artwork: PV-30.Credit: Len Rizzi (photographer). |  | Shown are butter, margarine, mayonnaise, salad dressing and shortening against a black background. All these are high in fat. See artwork: PV-44.Credit: Bill Branson (photographer). |
 | On an ivory background sits a stick of butter in a glass tray, a jar of mayonnaise, a bottle of oil and a bottle of salad dressing. See artwork: PV-44.Credit: Bill Branson (photographer). | ||
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Health | Avoid using mayonnaise or oil for salads. (references) | |
Cut back on added butter, mayonnaise, sweets, and other extras. (references) | ||
Fat One of three nutrients that supply calories to the body. Included are vegetable oil, lard, margarine, butter, shortening, mayonnaise, and salad dressing. (references) | ||
Economic History | Kazakhstan | There is growing demand for margarine, mayonnaise and other oil-based products. (references) |
Bahrain | High value U.S. food and beverage products with strong market potential in Bahrain include processed fruits and vegetables; beer; frozen poultry parts; fresh apples and pears; snack foods; breakfast cereals; frozen beef; tree nuts, particularly almonds; dairy products, particularly cheeses; fruit and vegetable juices; packaged rice; dry pulses and miscellaneous food products, particularly hot sauces, salad dressings, catsup, mayonnaise, vinegar, iodized salt, frozen dough mixes and coffee whiteners. (references) | |
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| "Mayonnaise" is generally used as a noun (singular) -- approximately 88.46% of the time. "Mayonnaise" is used about 130 times out of a sample of 100 million words spoken or written in English. Its rank is based on over 700,000 words used in the English language. Some parts-of-speech are not covered due to the samples used by the British National Corpus. (note: percents less than one-hundredth of one percent have been omitted) |
| Parts of Speech | Percent | Usage per 100 Million Words | Rank in English |
| Noun (singular) | 88.46% | 115 | 30,138 |
| Lexical Verb (base form) | 6.15% | 8 | 124,375 |
| Noun (proper) | 2.31% | 3 | 202,518 |
| Lexical Verb (infinitive) | 1.54% | 2 | 245,945 |
| Noun (common) | 1.54% | 2 | 245,945 |
| Total | 100.00% | 130 | N/A |
Source: compiled by the editor from several corpora; see credits.
| Country | Name |
| Japan | KENKO Mayonnaise Co., Ltd. |
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Source: compiled by the editor from Icon Group International, Inc.
Expressions using "mayonnaise": green mayonnaise ♦ Russian mayonnaise. Additional references. | |
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Beginning with "mayonnaise": mayonnaise-based, mayonnaise-bound. | |
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| The following statistics estimate the number of searches per day across the major English-language search engines as identified by various trade publications. Hyperlinks lead to commercial use of the expression at Amazon.com. |
| Language | Translations for "mayonnaise"; alternative meanings/domain in parentheses. | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Albanian | majonezë. (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Arabic | ميونيز, صلصة صفار البيض والخل والزيت. (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Asturian | mayonesa. (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Bulgarian | майонеза. (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Cebuano | mayones. (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Chinese | 蛋黄酱, 美乃滋醬 . (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Czech | majonéza. (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Danish | mayonnaise. (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Dutch | mayonaise. (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Faeroese | majonesa. (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Farsi | مایونز, نوعی چاشنی غذاوسالاد. (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Finnish | majoneesi. (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
French | mayonnaise, sauce mayonnaise. (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
German | Mayonnaise (salad cream). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Greek | σάλτσα μαγιονέζα, μαγιονέζα. (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Hebrew | מיו ית, מיו ז. (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Hungarian | majonéz (french dressing). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Inuktitut | palaugaap minguanga. (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Irish | maonáis. (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Italian | maionese. (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Japanese Kanji | マネーフロー分析 (kind of bicycle favored by housewives running errands around their neighborhood, mafia, maharaja, Mahatma, mahogany, Mahomet, malaria, Malibu, Mama, management, manager, mannequin, mannequin girl, manometer, maracas, maraschino, marathon, Maya, monetarism, money laundering, money market, money-flow analysis, moneymaker, muff, muffin, muffler, scarf). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Japanese Katakana | マヨネーズ . (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Korean | 마"네즈. (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Macedonian | majonez. (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Manx | sooslagh bwinnican. (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Pig Latin | ayonnaisemay molho de maionese, lesão física (bodily injury). (various references) maionesa. (various references) maionezã (salad dressing). (various references) майонез. (various references) meio. (various references) majonez. (various references) mayonesa (Mayo, salad cream), salsa mayonesa, la mayonesa. (various references) majonnäs. (various references) น้ำสลั"ชนิ"ข้น. (various references) mayonez. (various references) майонез. (various references) nước xốt mayonne. (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
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Words beginning with "mayonnaise": mayonnaises. (additional references) | |
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"Mayonnaise" is suggested in spellcheckers for the following: Bayonnais, gabonaise, maconnaise, maxonians, mayonaise, mayonaisse, mayonayse, mayonnaisey. (additional references) | |
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| # of Phoneme Matches | Pronunciation | Word(s) rhyming with "mayonnaise" (pronounced mā"unā'z) |
| 3 | -n ā' z | streptokinase. |
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Scrabble® Enable2K-Verified Anagrams | |
| Words within the letters "a-a-e-i-m-n-n-o-s-y" | |
-3 letters: aeonian, amnesia, amnions, anemias, anomies, anonyms, anosmia, mannose, mansion, minyans, onanism. | |
-4 letters: amines, amnion, amnios, anemia, animas, animes, anions, annoys, anomie, anonym, anyone, eonian, eonism, inanes, insane, inseam, manias, mannas, mesian, minyan, moneys, monies, myosin, nanism, nasion, nomina, seaman, semina, sienna, simony, yamens, yeoman. | |
-5 letters: aeons, amain, amens, amias, amies, amine, amino, amins. | |
| Words containing the letters "a-a-e-i-m-n-n-o-s-y" | |
+1 letter: mayonnaises. | |
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Hexadecimal (or equivalents, 770AD-1900s) (references)4D 61 79 6F 6E 6E 61 69 73 65 |
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Binary Code (1918-1938, probably earlier) (references)01001101 01100001 01111001 01101111 01101110 01101110 01100001 01101001 01110011 01100101 |
HTML Code (1990) (references)M a y o n n a i s e |
ISO 10646 (1991-1993) (references)004D 0061 0079 006F 006E 006E 0061 0069 0073 0065 |
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Encryption (beginner's substitution cypher): (references)47679181808067758571 |
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