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Eggs Neptune

Ingredients

  • 4 English muffins
  • 4 ounce crab meat (snow, king, or lobster meat)
  • 8 eggs
  • fresh dill
  • hollandaise sauce

Instructions

Poach eggs, then put in a bowl with ice water (they will keep overnight in the refrigerator). Toast the muffins. Warm the crab meat in the microwave oven or by placing in hot water for a few minutes, then squeezing out the excess water. Place the crab meat on the muffins. Top with the eggs heated in hot water for 2 minutes, and garnish with the hollandaise sauce and fresh dill. Yield: 4 servings. Hollandaise sauce 2 egg yolks 1 tablespoon warm water juice of 1/4 lemon 1/2 cup butter dash of cayenne pepper Mix the egg yolks, water and lemon juice and whip for 2 minutes with a wire whisk. In a double boiler, melt the butter. Put aside and keep warm, but not hot. Put the egg mixture in a bowl and set on top of the double boiler. Whip constantly with a wire whisk and add butter in a steady, very slow stream (otherwise the egg mixture will break). The sauce is ready when it reaches the consistency of thick molasses. Add the cayenne pepper.

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