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Handwritten notebook page 5, showing Hollandaise Sauce
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Hollandaise Sauce

Sauce

Ingredients

1-2 ozvinegar
a littleonion
12-15 [?]peppercorns
6egg yolks
12 ozclarified butter
juice of 1lemon
pinchsalt
shotTabasco

Method

  1. Reduce vinegar, onion and peppercorns over heat by half.
  2. Add 6 egg yolks; beat over heat until fluffy.
  3. Add 12 oz clarified butter.
  4. Add the juice of a lemon, a pinch of salt and a shot of Tabasco.
  5. Strain through cloth.

Notes

  • One of the 5 mother sauces. BĂ©arnaise (page 15) uses the same reduction.
As written in 1982
Hollandaise Sauce
1-2 oz vinegar
little onion
peppercorns (12-15?)
reduce over heat to half.
add six egg yolks
Beat till fluffy (over heat)
add 12oz clarified butter.
add Juice of a lemon.
pinch a salt.
(shot a tabasco)
strain through cloth.
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