hollandaise sauce
Americannoun
noun
Etymology
Origin of hollandaise sauce
First recorded in 1905–10, hollandaise sauce is from French sauce hollandaise “Dutch sauce”
Example Sentences
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Viewers may emerge from “The Taste of Things” desperate to find a restaurant that serves a good vol-au-vent, a turbot in hollandaise sauce or the meringue-coated ice cream confection known as baked alaska.
From New York Times ● Feb. 9, 2024
Heather: You have to get the pommes soufflé — they’re like puffed-up french fries, and they serve them with hollandaise sauce.
From Washington Post ● Jun. 13, 2022
There's no fussy bain marie or balloon whisk needed to make this hollandaise sauce — just a high-powered blender and a lot of butter.
From Salon ● Apr. 2, 2022
What generally stops people making eggs benedict at home is the hollandaise sauce, which is fiddly and prone to splitting and curdling.
From The Guardian ● May 6, 2020
Large white hunks of this fish were carved out and put on to our plates, and with it we had hollandaise sauce and boiled new potatoes.
From "Boy: Tales of a Childhood" by Roald Dahl
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