In honor of May, being National Egg Month, here are TWO of Mom’s copycat recipes for…
EGGS BENEDICT & HOLLANDAISE – Like Brennan’s
By Gloria Pitzer, as seen in… Gloria Pitzer’s Cookbook – Best Of The Recipe Detective (Balboa Press; Jan. 2018, p. 136). [A revised reprint of Gloria Pitzer’s Better Cookery Cookbook (Secret RecipesTM, St. Clair, MI; May 1983, 3rd Edition).] As always, I’m asking only for proper credit if you care to re-share these recipes.
Unlike the usual fast-food-like Eggs Benedict that we are now use to at either McDonald’s – where it is lovingly called Egg McMuffin – or at Big Boy, where it is also prepared with an English muffin and a sausage patty…
Here is the most memorable way of serving it, the way Ella Brennan Martin prepared it years ago [New Orleans, LA; circa 1960s], when Paul Blange was her head chef.
INGREDIENTS:
packaged Holland Rusk or homemade rounds of Zwieback
sliced and grilled Canadian bacon
soft poached egg
hollandaise sauce [*see recipe below]
paprika
INSTRUCTIONS:
Top crisp rusks, such as packaged Holland Rusk or homemade rounds of Zwieback, with sliced and grilled Canadian bacon. Add a soft poached egg to each and ladle hollandaise sauce over the eggs, sprinkling each with a bit of paprika.
*BRENNAN-STYLE HOLLANDAISE
By Gloria Pitzer, as seen in… Gloria Pitzer’s Cookbook – Best Of The Recipe Detective (Balboa Press; Jan. 2018, p. 136). [A revised reprint of Gloria Pitzer’s Better Cookery Cookbook (Secret RecipesTM, St. Clair, MI; May 1983, 3rd Edition).]
INGREDIENTS:
4 egg yolks
2 TB lemon juice
½ pound melted butter or margarine
salt and pepper, to taste (optional)
INSTRUCTIONS:
In top of a double boiler, beat egg yolks just to combine and whip in lemon juice. Place over hot, but not boiling, water and do not allow the water in the bottom pan to touch the top pan.
Add melted butter or margarine, stirring constantly with a sturdy spoon, until mixture thickens – or use portable electric mixer on lowest speed to blend until thickened. Serve sauce warm with salt and pepper added… if you wish.
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