eggs benedict

     

Eggs Beneict is a dish that consists of two halves of an English muffin, topped with ham or bacon, poached eggs, and hollandaise sauce.

Trivia about eggs benedict

  • Some say this brunch dish was created to cure the hangover of a Mr. Samuel Benedict
  • This "traitorous" egg dish is a favorite at a Manhattan Delmonico's restaurant, where it was supposedly created
  • This fancy egg dish is said to have been created at Delmonico's in the 1800s; even then, Hollandaise sauce was used
  • The Culinary Inst. of America's recipe for this dish with a papal name calls for 8 English muffins & 16 slices of bacon