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hollandaise sauce

American  
[hol-uhn-dayz, hol-uhn-dayz] / ˈhɒl ənˌdeɪz, ˌhɒl ənˈdeɪz /

noun

  1. a sauce of egg yolks, butter, lemon juice, and seasonings.


hollandaise sauce British  
/ ˈhɒlənˌdeɪz-, ˌhɒlənˈdeɪz- /

noun

  1. a rich sauce of egg yolks, butter, vinegar, etc, served esp with fish

"Collins English Dictionary — Complete & Unabridged" 2012 Digital Edition © William Collins Sons & Co. Ltd. 1979, 1986 © HarperCollins Publishers 1998, 2000, 2003, 2005, 2006, 2007, 2009, 2012

Etymology

Origin of hollandaise sauce

First recorded in 1905–10, hollandaise sauce is from French sauce hollandaise “Dutch sauce”


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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

The extra butter can be used for cooking eggs or whisked into a hollandaise sauce.

From Salon ● Apr. 25, 2021

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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