Grandpa’s Hollandaise
Create your own double boiler
- Put 1 C distilled water into a soup pan and bring up to boil.
- Reduce water in soup pan to active simmer and place a large metal mixing bowl onto the soup pan, creating a double boiler
- – WARNING: Don’t heat the Hollandaise too quickly or let temperature of liquid rise above 175 degrees or eggs may congeal. It may also separate and once that happens there is no recovery. Your sauce will still taste the same, it will just not be as creamy looking. 160 degrees is ideal.
Alternate: to a double boiler
A double boiler helps guarantee success, but you can do this in a mixing bowl right on the stove top. Put in three yolks and three tabs of COL butter. Put on and take off of the heat – never letting it get really hot. When ribbons start to appear, take it off the heat and whisk in a splash of lemon.
Hollandaise – Recipes and Notes
Knorr Hollandaise Sauce Powder
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Eggs Benedict
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Salmon Benedict
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The Five Mother Sauces
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Sauce Maltaise
This is a French Hollandaise. Reduce orange juice with peppercorns until almost dry. Mix in with Hollandaise instead of lemon juice.
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Other Sauces
Other Recipes for Making Hollandaise
Basic Hollandaise
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While this is technically a good recipe (more technically accurate than mine) I still prefer my recipe, but here it is for your reference.
Blender Hollandaise
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Here is an alternate recipe that does not require cooking. You are forewarned about the whole raw egg stuff.
Pumpkin Hollandaise
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The information below this section is from a third party. It is part of Grandpa's Personal Recipe box. Feel free to browse, but know that this information is from someone else.
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A YouTube video from a Third Party, but a nice recipe. Also includes Oysters and Pumpkin Cheesecake.
Microwave Hollandaise
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This is actually a pretty good recipe. It is easier than a double boiler, but actually takes about as much time as real Hollandaise.
Avocado Hollandaise
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This is not exactly a Hollandaise, but it makes a creamy VEGAN sauce for putting over cooked vegetables.
Tomato Cream Hollandaise
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This is another VEGAN creamy sauce recipe – This has not yet been fully debugged.
Mustard Hollandaise
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- Using a Double Boiler
- 3 egg yolks – whisk together
- Cook slowly, so they don’t scramble
- Color will lighten
- Add scant Cream of Tartar
- Look for “a ribbon”
- Slowly add clarified butter – whisking constantly
- Add lemon juice
- Dijon mustard and whole grain mustard
- Salt and pepper
- Put sausage, ham, or spinach on an English muffin
- Top with a poached egg
- Top with Hollandaise sauce
- Top with a bit of diced greens for color
