#82394 10-20-2008 02:55 PM | Joined: May 2002 Posts: 2,152 Patient Advocate (old timer, 2000 posts) | OP Patient Advocate (old timer, 2000 posts) Joined: May 2002 Posts: 2,152 | Someone asked for this, so here goes. I'm certain you can find a million other recipes on the net. This however is the one I use. Hollandaise Sauce
3 egg yolks 1 TB fresh lemon juice 1 TB water 1/4 tsp salt pinch white pepper 1 TP cold butter 1 � sticks of butter softened
In a 6 cup medium-weight sauce pan, (I use heavy corning ware), beat the eggs for a minute or two with a wire whisk, to thicken them slightly and prepare them for what is to come. Then beat in the lemon juice, water, salt and pepper (omit pepper if mouth sore, I don't use salt); continue beating for a minute. Add TB of cold butter (I cut this into a couple of pieces). This will melt slowly as you heat the eggs and will provide a little anti scramble insurance.
Place the sauce pan over low heat and stir the eggs at a moderate speed with the whisk removing eggs from heat now and then to make certain they are not heating too quickly. If they start lumping, plunge bottom of pan into cold water or put on cool surface and continue to beat to cool them. Then continue to beat over heat. The yolks are beginning to cream as soon as you notice a steamy vapor rising from the pan; in a few seconds you will begin to see the bottom of the pan between strokes. In a few seconds, they will form a creamy layer over the wires of the whisk, they are done.
Remove from heat immediately and place on cool surface while continuously beating. Start adding softened butter by 1/4 tsp (I do tsp), beating until each tsp is absorbed before adding next. When sauce thickens into heavy cream, you can start using � TBSP. Serve warm, not hot.
This is Julia Child�s recipe from The French Chef Cookbook. I did not type it in verbatim. It states you can use melted butter and beat in by driplets. I have never done it this way. When I make it, I make 2/3 of the recipe - 2 egg yolks, � to 1 stick of butter and all the lemon juice and water. The sauce is very thick, not pourable like some hollandaises, and takes about 8 minutes to beat in the butter after it comes off the burner. My arm usually gives out after 5 and my husband takes over. I usually serve this with baked salmon fillets or baked salmon steaks with peas or snow peas in the winter, fresh asparagus in May and have enough left over to put on poached eggs on toast the next morning. There are only two of us and I don�t eat a lot of salmon. Enjoy!
Take care, Eileen
---------------------- Aug 1997 unknown primary, Stage III mets to 1 lymph node in neck; rt ND, 36 XRT rad Aug 2001 tiny tumor on larynx, Stage I total laryngectomy; left ND June 5, 2010 dx early stage breast cancer June 9, 2011 SCC 1.5 cm hypo pharynx, 70% P-16 positive, no mets, Stage I
| | | | Joined: Jun 2007 Posts: 10,507 Likes: 7 Administrator, Director of Patient Support Services Patient Advocate (old timer, 2000 posts) | Administrator, Director of Patient Support Services Patient Advocate (old timer, 2000 posts) Joined: Jun 2007 Posts: 10,507 Likes: 7 | Sounds yummy!!!!!! My kids love eggs benedict and I have never even tried to make them. Now I will give it a try one weekend morning and surprise them. Thank you  ChristineSCC 6/15/07 L chk & by L molar both Stag I, age44 2x cispltn-35 IMRT end 9/27/07 -65 lbs in 2 mo, no caregvr Clear PET 1/08 4/4/08 recur L chk Stag I surg 4/16/08 clr marg 215 HBO dives 3/09 teeth out, trismus 7/2/09 recur, Stg IV 8/24/09 trach, ND, mandiblctmy 3wks medicly inducd coma 2 mo xtended hospital stay, ICU & burn unit PICC line IV antibx 8 mo 10/4/10, 2/14/11 reconst surg OC 3x in 3 years very happy to be alive | | | | Joined: Jan 2008 Posts: 706 "Above & Beyond" Member (500+ posts) | "Above & Beyond" Member (500+ posts) Joined: Jan 2008 Posts: 706 | I use the Knorr mix to make hollandaise. So easy and yummy. We have the Eggs Benedict at every holiday.
Sue
cg to husband, 48 Stage 1V head and neck SCC. First surgery 9/07. Radiation and several rounds of chemo followed. Mets to chest and lungs. "Life isn't about waiting for the storm to pass, it's about learning to dance in the rain." Went home to God on February 22, 2009.
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