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- From: kent@decwrl.dec.com (Chris Kent)
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- Subject: RECIPE: Hollandaise sauce
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- Date: 17 Jul 87 06:07:14 GMT
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- .RH MOD.RECIPES-SOURCE HOLLANDAISE-1 S "17 May 87" 1987
- .RZ "LIGHT HOLLANDAISE" "A quick and easy Hollandaise sauce"
- Few small things seem to impress dinner guests more than a good
- Hollandaise sauce. Perhaps this is because the guests think it is
- difficult to execute. This recipe disproves that notion; it makes it
- simple to produce a consistently good Hollandaise sauce.
- Use it over asparagus, to dip artichokes, with steak and rice, or for
- anything you can imagine. The original recipe comes from
- .I
- Julia Child & Company.
- .IH "1\(12 cups" "4 dl"
- .IG "3 Tb" "fresh lemon juice" "50 ml"
- .IG "3 Tb" "water" "50 ml"
- .IG "\(12 tsp" "salt" "2.5 ml"
- .IG "3" "eggs"
- .IG "6\-8 oz" "unsalted butter" "200 g"
- .PH
- .SK 1
- Melt the butter in a small saucepan. It should be warm, but not bubbling
- hot.
- .SK 2
- Combine the lemon juice and water in a small sauce pan. Bring to a simmer,
- adding the salt.
- .SK 3
- Meanwhile, place one egg and the yolks of the other two in a smallish
- saucepan. Vigorously beat the egg and yolks with a wire whip for a minute
- or so, until they are pale and thick.
- .SK 4
- 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
- the bottom and corners of the 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.)
- .SK 5
- Immediately start beating in the warm butter by driblets, to make a thick,
- creamy, light yellow sauce.
- .SK 6
- Taste carefully for seasoning, adding salt, pepper, and more lemon juice
- to taste.
- .NX
- This sauce is really so easy to make, you should leave it to the last
- minute. It doesn't keep terribly well. Any egg yolk and butter sauce can
- be kept only warm, not hot, or it will curdle.
- Also remember that sauces with egg yolks are prime breeding grounds for
- sick-making bacteria.
- .PP
- Copper or stainless steel saucepans are best, as they transmit and hold
- heat better than anything else. I often make this solely in CorningWare
- pots, and find that sometimes the sauce will not set after removing from
- heat and adding the butter. In this case, return the mixture to very low
- heat, whisking vigorously until the sauce achieves the desired thickness.
- Too much heat will either curdle the egg yolks or cause the butter to
- separate from the mixture.
- .SH RATING
- .I Difficulty:
- easy to moderate.
- .I Time:
- 5 minutes.
- .I Precision:
- approximate measurement OK.
- .WR
- Chris Kent
- DEC Western Research Laboratory, Palo Alto, California, USA
- kent@decwrl.dec.com decwrl!kent
-