Salad Cream
Created | Updated Jan 28, 2002
Salad Cream is a creamy yellow viscous sauce type condiment similar in ilk to mayonaisse. As the title suggests this under rated sauce is a cream for adding to salads. But like many other things the end product is greater than the sum of its parts.
Invented by Heinz in 1914 is soon rose to popularity with the working class masses in Britain throughout the 20th Century and became almost a staple diet along with potatoes and rice pudding. Its ingredients are simple yet ingenius and cover the four main food groups:
Ingredients: spirit Vinegar, Vegetable oil 25%, Water, Sugar, Mustard, Salt, Egg yolks 3%, modified cornflour, stabilisers - Xantham gum and Guar gum, colour - Riboflavin
-please note that you should never flush big quantities of guar gum down the toilet as it will block the drains.
From the early 1990's til 2000 the popularity of salad cream has waned for a cultural reason rather than of one of taste and perception. Mayonnaise came along with it's decedent french roots and began its hostile take over.
The problem with Salad cream at that point was its working class background and with British society as it is many people turned to mayo almost as a part of an attempt to climb the social ladder. But now Salad Cream is starting to make a comeback and like Guerrila warfare it is staying small, gaining a cult following and is administering a social change. It is after all one of Britains best kept secrets and the worlds first socialist sauce.
When buying Salad cream it is important to note that both the manufacturer and the container itself both have a huge imapct on the sauces taste. It is best to stick with the creators Heinz but if budget is a constraint one cannot ignore then supermarket brands are your best bet. Please avoid at all costs the little sachets of salad cream to be found at Service Stations and cheap eateries, as these have been known to be so foul that deaths have occured (this claim has no foundation in truth).
The Salad cream container itself comes in two guises, the traditional glass and the new modern squeezy bottle. Although rare now it is possible and strongly advised to go with the glass. The reasons for this are glass has the thicker sauce and the satisfaction factor as nothing beats the challenge of geeting the thick sauce out of a solid container plus the reward of a blob being spat out of the bottle after five minutes of serious bottle hammering.
The key factor that makes Salad cream a utopian sauce is the fact that it can be made part of any meal, its flavour enhancing properties mean that it complements almost any food stuff.
Many many people have yet to experience the joy of Salad Cream on:
1) Ham sandwich
2) Cold Pizza
3) Chips
4) fishfinger sandwich
Salad cream will go on just about any food substance. However it is not recommended with gravy or as a replacement for custard, but can be tried. Perhaps one day the world will wake up to salad cream and will abandon the world of tomato ketchup and dare I say it Mayonaisse.
The world would then be a better place.
Invented by Heinz in 1914 is soon rose to popularity with the working class masses in Britain throughout the 20th Century and became almost a staple diet along with potatoes and rice pudding. Its ingredients are simple yet ingenius and cover the four main food groups:
Ingredients: spirit Vinegar, Vegetable oil 25%, Water, Sugar, Mustard, Salt, Egg yolks 3%, modified cornflour, stabilisers - Xantham gum and Guar gum, colour - Riboflavin
-please note that you should never flush big quantities of guar gum down the toilet as it will block the drains.
From the early 1990's til 2000 the popularity of salad cream has waned for a cultural reason rather than of one of taste and perception. Mayonnaise came along with it's decedent french roots and began its hostile take over.
The problem with Salad cream at that point was its working class background and with British society as it is many people turned to mayo almost as a part of an attempt to climb the social ladder. But now Salad Cream is starting to make a comeback and like Guerrila warfare it is staying small, gaining a cult following and is administering a social change. It is after all one of Britains best kept secrets and the worlds first socialist sauce.
When buying Salad cream it is important to note that both the manufacturer and the container itself both have a huge imapct on the sauces taste. It is best to stick with the creators Heinz but if budget is a constraint one cannot ignore then supermarket brands are your best bet. Please avoid at all costs the little sachets of salad cream to be found at Service Stations and cheap eateries, as these have been known to be so foul that deaths have occured (this claim has no foundation in truth).
The Salad cream container itself comes in two guises, the traditional glass and the new modern squeezy bottle. Although rare now it is possible and strongly advised to go with the glass. The reasons for this are glass has the thicker sauce and the satisfaction factor as nothing beats the challenge of geeting the thick sauce out of a solid container plus the reward of a blob being spat out of the bottle after five minutes of serious bottle hammering.
The key factor that makes Salad cream a utopian sauce is the fact that it can be made part of any meal, its flavour enhancing properties mean that it complements almost any food stuff.
Many many people have yet to experience the joy of Salad Cream on:
1) Ham sandwich
2) Cold Pizza
3) Chips
4) fishfinger sandwich
Salad cream will go on just about any food substance. However it is not recommended with gravy or as a replacement for custard, but can be tried. Perhaps one day the world will wake up to salad cream and will abandon the world of tomato ketchup and dare I say it Mayonaisse.
The world would then be a better place.
