One more entry for the contest (Hellmann's/Best Foods Mayonnaise, 1951)

[medren.livejournal.com]

The tomato ring doesn't even look like food, and blueberry muffins made with mayonnaise seem nasty.

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[mrtoulouse.livejournal.com]

First of all : muffins with mayonnaise? Gag. But that Tuna-Tomato Ring looks like plastic. There's no way anything can be that solidly red and shiny and still be edible.

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[luke-russell.livejournal.com]

Exactly!

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[crabofdoom.livejournal.com]

Mayonnaise ought never to be in the same sentence with blueberry muffins, let alone in the same recipe.

Neat that they encouraged reusing the jars, though, even after the war.

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[kimerastorm.livejournal.com]

There is a recipie for these amazing waffles.

Instead of eggs and oil seperate, it calls for use of mayonaise. The waffles are still amazing.

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[wonderwonder.livejournal.com]

I seem to remember Hellmann's running a serious ad campaign in the 80s featuring chocolate cake with mayo as its secret ingredient. The recipe is here: http://www.hellmanns.us/recipe_detail.aspx?RecipeID=2080&Version=1

[keristars.livejournal.com]

I don't see anything wrong with using mayonnaise to bake. I mean, it's just eggs and oils, right? which you put into baking things anyway...

[mystical-chickn.livejournal.com]

Yeah, this, like I said in my comment, I made a cake with mayo as a kid and it was fantastically good.

[mystical-chickn.livejournal.com]

I'm going to (probably) be the odd one out and say that the mayonnaise muffins might be pretty good. The mayo would probably make them light and fluffy (I made a chocolate cake using mayo--instead of eggs and oil--when I was ten years old and it was frigging DELICIOUS). I mean it wouldn't be like you bit into the muffin and then SURPRISE!MAYONNAISE.

[medren.livejournal.com]

Yeah, I think my hatred of mayonnaise blinds me to its possible uses to make baked goods fluffy. Mayonnaise just grosses me out, and all these awful Hellmann's recipes don't help!

[thisprairielife.livejournal.com]

My grandma makes a really good chocolate mayo cake. It's so gross when she inexplicably uses Miracle Whip instead, though.

[cactuswren.livejournal.com]

Well that's because Miracle Whip is inherently disgusting.

[thisprairielife.livejournal.com]

True dat.

[vix.livejournal.com]

Now if you put a Boston-Creme-like filled center of mayonnaise in the muffins, it really would be SURPRISE!MAYONNAISE.

[randomneses.livejournal.com]

could you possibly resize this?

[medren.livejournal.com]

Hmm...I'm trying to, but when I go to the edit function, Photobucket won't come up for some reason.

[splix.livejournal.com]

I had a wagon with wheels that looked exactly like that tomato ring.

At least we know they're freshly broken. Thank God for that.

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[whoseline_wlsc]

At first I thought "Where's the tomato ring?," then saw that shiny red plastic-looking thing was the ring. Plus, muffins and mayo sound extremely unappetizing together.

[janenx01.livejournal.com]

I'm jumping on the "cook with mayo" wagon. It's all mixed up in there, so I don't think it would bother me.

I really want to make tomato aspic someday. If I do, I will inflict the pictures upon all of you. :P

[njbearcub1.livejournal.com]

Other than to make it stand out against the white background, I wonder why the mayo in the jars is tinted yellow.

[cactuswren.livejournal.com]

To make it look "richer", I think.

And damn is that some shiny glossy highly polished tomato aspic.

[air-and-angels.livejournal.com]

To imply yolkiness!

[koneko-wish.livejournal.com]

I refuse to believe that is tomato. That, sir, is a dog bowl. And ain't nobody tellin' me different.

[prosodic.livejournal.com]

I was thinking the same thing!

[huskyteer.livejournal.com]

I have favourite versions of many things, but my favourite tomato aspic is not one of them.

[shanmonster.livejournal.com]

I am about to make those muffins, but with cranberries instead of blueberries. Will post the results....

[shanmonster.livejournal.com]

Here's the result:



I used whole wheat flour, and a lower-fat variety of mayonnaise. The verdict is they are very moist and have an excellent consistency. However, the flavour is rather bland. I would use this recipe as a base again, but would add spices to give the flavour some much-needed oomph. I would also add more fruit.

[1girl.livejournal.com]

They look good! I salute your mayo-baking ways!

[wonderwonder.livejournal.com]

if you go to http://www.hellmans.us and click on 'recipes' and then 'desserts' from the pull-down menu, you'll find tons more, including CHOCOLATE CHIP COOKIES.

[wonderwonder.livejournal.com]

oops. *http://www.hellmanns.us/. with two Ns.

[3cthelion.livejournal.com]

maybe i'm being affected by all the recent ads, but maybe perhaps that red, dog-bowl-looking thing could be tomato gelatin? i'm not personally familiar with such a thing, but it would also not surprise me (for the time, at least).

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[emmuzka.livejournal.com]

That tomato ring looks the worst so far.

Also, I'll bet you anything that they thought to use whole eggs in the mayo because then the ingredients are *cheaper* than when using egg yolks only.

[vix.livejournal.com]

YES!