Hollandaise Sauce

Preparation info
  • Serves

    6

    • Difficulty

      Easy

Appears in
The Claire Macdonald Cookbook

By Claire Macdonald

Published 1997

  • About

A rich warm hollandaise sauce turns even simple vegetables, such as asparagus, into a special dish.

Ingredients

  • ¼ pint/140 ml white wine vinegar
  • 1 bay leaf
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Method

Put the vinegar, bay leaf, mace, peppercorns and parsley stalks into a small saucepan and bring to the boil. Simmer until the liquid has reduced by about half.

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