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Newsgroups: rec.food.recipes
Distribution: world
From: IDRAB@ASUACAD.bitnet
Date: 8 Oct 91 15:22:23 GMT
Subject: PORK: Eggs Benedict and English Muffins
Summary: orig. subject: RE: Eggs Benedict
Archive-Name: recipes/pork/eggs-benedict
Keywords: recipe pork eggs benedict
Followup-To: rec.food.cooking
Organization: Arizona State University
Approved: aem@mthvax.cs.miami.edu
Here's an artery-clogging response to a recent request for Eggs
Benedict-- I make it every New Year's Morning and serve it with fruit
salad and champagne. What a way to start the year! The recipe is from
Julia Child & Company. The Hollandaise is much more lemony than any
restaurant sauce I've had, so if you're used to fairly bland
Hollandaise, you might be shocked. It's by far the best I've ever had.
EGGS BENEDICT
(serves 6)
12 toasted and buttered English muffin halves
12 rounds of boiled ham or Canadian bacon, lightly sauteed in butter
12 poached eggs
About 1 1/2 C. hollandaise sauch
Optional toppings: Either slices of truffle or minced fresh parsley or
minced cooked ham; salt and pepper (I don't use any toppings on mine--
it's gorgeous plain)
Just before serving, place 2 hot toasted muffin halves on each plate
and top each with a piece of ham or Canadian bacon. Place a poached
egg (blot with a paper towel if really wet) on each ham-topped muffin.
Spoon a large dollop of hollandaise on top. If desired, finish with
optional topping. Serve immediately.
HOLLANDAISE
3 T. fresh lemon juice, 3 T. water and 1/2 t. salt in a small saucepan
1 whole egg and 2 egg yolks in a small stainless-steel saucepan
8-oz warm, but not bubbling hot, butter in a small saucepan
Shortly before serving, bring the lemon juice, water and salt to a
simmer. Meanwhile, vigorously beat the gg and yolks in their pan with
a wire whip for a minute or so until they are pale and thick. Then set
the yolk mixture over moderately low heat and whisk in the hot lemon
juice by driblets. Continue whisking, not too fast but reaching all
over bottom and corners of pan, until you have a foamy warm mass;
remove from heat just as you see a wisp of steam rising. (Do not
overheat or you will coagulate the egg yolks) Immediately start beating
in the warm butter by driblets, to make a thick, creamy sauce.
NOTE: I put the lemon juice mixture in a pyrex measuring cup and bring
it to a simmer in the microwave. I also melt the butter in the
microwave in a measuring cup. Makes this whole sauce a lot easier, and
you don't end up with all your small saucepans dirty from the process!
If you're really ambitious, you can make your own English muffins. I
usually don't bother--store-bought aren't too bad.
ENGLISH MUFFINS
1 T. dry active yeast dissolved in 1/2 C. tepid water
2 T. instant mashed potatoes softened in 1/2 C. boiling water
1 C. cold milk, plus driblets of water, if needed
2 1/2 C. flour in a 3-quart mixing bowl
To be added after first rise: 1 1/2 t. salt dissolved in 3 T. tepid water
2 to 3 T. butter, softened
Into the instant potatoes, beat the cold milk and stir it along with
the dissolved yeast into the flour. Beat vigorously for a minute or so
with a wooden spoon to make a smooth, loose thick batter, heavier than
the usual pancake batter, but not at all like conventional bread
dough. (Beat in driblets of water if batter is stiff rather than
loose) Cover with plastic wrap and let rise, preferably at around 80
deg. F. until batter has risen and large bubbles appear in the surface
(usually about 1 1/2 hours).
Stir the batter down, then beat in the salt and water, beating
vigorously for a minute. Cover and let rise until bubbles again appear
in the surface-- about 1 hour at 80 degrees F.
Brush insides of English muffin rings (or catfood or tuna cans about 3"
in diameter with tops and bottoms removed) generously with butter.
Butter surface of griddle or frying pan lightly and set over moderate
heat. When drops of water placed on the pan surface begin to dance,
the heat is about right. Spoon or scoop batter into the ring--batter
should be about 3/8" thick.
Cook the muffins slowly on one side until bubbles pierce through the
top surface and until almost the entire top changes from a wet ivory
white to a dryish gray color; this will take 6 to 8 minutes or more,
depending on the heat (regulate heat so that the bottoms of the muffins
do not color more than a medium or pale brown). Turn the muffin rings
over on the griddle and lift the ring away from the muffin. Continue
cooking the second side until lightly browned and dry (probably less
than 1 minute). Cool the muffins on a rack. Split in half
horizontally with a table fork.