Name: White-Tail Deer Fillet Benedict
Yield: Serves 4
Cuisine: British
Ingredients: 1 or 2 scallions per muffin; 1 thin slice white-tailed deer fillet (tenderloin) per muffin; 1 English muffin or 2 crumpets per person; 3 egg yolks; 1 cup (2 sticks) unsalted butter, cut in small cubes; 1 tablespoon cold water; 1 tablespoon lemon juice; salt and pepper; 1 poached egg per muffin

Preparation info

Serves
4

Difficulty
Easy

Appears in

The Game Cookbook

By Clarissa Dickson Wright and Johnny Scott

Published 2004

About

This is a very handy supper dish or for the more robust breakfast. The Benedict who invented this was Benedict Astor who, descending to the dining room of the Waldorf Astoria in New York with a crushing hangover, invented his breakfast it does adapt very well to roe deer.

Ingredients

For the Hollandaise sauce

3 egg yolks
1 tablespoon cold water
1 cup (

Method

In the top pan of a double boiler over boiling water, put the yolks, water, salt and pepper, and beat until the yolks are smooth. Whisk a handful of butter cubes into the yolks, beat until the butter is absorbed, and keep going until all the butter is used and the sauce begins to thicken. Stir in the lemon juice.

You can also do it in a microwave: melt the butter and keep in a measuring