Classic Eggs Benedict

According to the classic legend, Eggs Benedict was invented in New York in the 1860s at Delmonico’s restaurant in Manhattan to rejuvenate the decidedly bored palates of upper-crust regulars, Mr & Mrs Le Grand Benedict. The revisionist myth suggests that the dish was born when Lemuel Benedict, a Wall Street businessman, ordered toast, bacon, poached eggs and a jug of hollandaise as a hangover cure at the Waldorf Hotel in 1894. The maître d’hotel — one