Easy Hollandaise Sauce

Preparation info
    • Difficulty

      Easy

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By Keith Floyd

Published 1987

  • 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 (750 g) unsalted butter
  • 6 eggs
  • Juice of

Method

Melt the butter in a pan with a pouring lip. Put the eggs (unseparated) with the lemon juice and pepper into a food processor or liquidiser 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 b