DisputedFrom the people of the place
hollandaise sauce
noun · first attested 19th century
A thoroughly French sauce called Dutch, for reasons nobody has ever pinned down.
A warm emulsified sauce of egg yolk, melted butter and lemon juice or vinegar.
Netherlands·Kingdom of the Netherlands
52.3167°N 5.5500°E · Q55
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- 19th century
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- noun
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hollandaise sauce
Hollandaise means in the Dutch manner, and the competing guesses are Dutch butter, Dutch eggs, or a wartime renaming of a Normandy sauce from Isigny when French butter ran short. None of them is documented, and the recipe appears in French kitchens under several names before this one stuck.
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