Hollandaise Sauce

The Quick and Easy Way

Preparation info
    • Difficulty

      Easy

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By Keith Floyd

Published 1985

  • About

Cookery writers and chefs of yesterday terrified the living daylights out of people with their old wives’ tales about egg liaison sauces. Ignore all this. And follow me.

Ingredients

  • lb (700 g) unsalted butter 6 eggs
  • Juice of

Method

Melt the butter in a pan with a pouring lip. Put the egg yolks and whites with the lemon juice and pepper into a food processor and turn on.

Pour the hot melted butter evenly into the whisking eggs until the sauce has thickened. To keep warm, place over a pan of recently boiled water until ready to serve. And that, my little gastronauts, is that.

For variations you can add blanc