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Portia Chwiliydd wrote: No 😋, but I would hold the bowl against my body to beat the mixture - I'm guessing the book was written before electic whisks/mixers.😀 I wonder what the actually basis for his comment was - old wives' tales or something else.🤔

I can't remember the name of the story, but there's a scifi story about a world where women rule and men are kept in an inferior position because their natural chemical cycles are measured in minutes/hours and therefore they are more unstable, whereas the women's longer and more predictable cycles makes them better suited to running everything. Then the men have a revolution. It's interesting to see the sexism the same but different. There are a number of interesting sci-fi stories where mens' and womens' roles/functions are reversed or highly polarised. It's a fascinating theme. Look how popular Handmaid's Tale became. But in the real world, women have been/are segregated or discriminated against because of their monthly cycles. I guess the mayonnaise thing has some basis in that kind of superstition. PMT makes some women very ratty LOL.

If your mayonnaise separates while mixing, my cookbook recommends dropping an ice cube into it. Don't know if it works though. My mayonnaise never separates.......