English muffin English muffin English muffins are a small, round, flat yeast-leavened bread which is commonly sliced horizontally, toasted, and buttered. Toasted English muffins, which are often used in the United States as a breakfast food, may be served with sweet toppings (e.g., jam, or honey) or savoury toppings (e.g., eggs, sausage rounds, bacon, or cheese). English muffins are also used as the bread in a variety of breakfast sandwiches, and are an essential ingredient in Eggs Benedict and most of its variations. In the United States and U.S.-influenced territories, they are called "English muffins" to distinguish them from U.S. muffins, which
Hollandaise sauce One of his categories was "allemande", which was a stock-based sauce using egg and lemon juice. Escoffier replaced "allemande" with "hollandaise" in his list of the five mother sauces of haute cuisine. While many believe that a true hollandaise sauce should only contain the basic ingredients of eggs, butter and lemon, Prosper Montagne suggested using either a white wine or vinegar reduction, similar to a Béarnaise sauce, to help improve the taste. In English, the name "Dutch sauce" was common through the nineteenth century, but was largely displaced by "hollandaise" in the twentieth. As in other egg emulsion sauces, like