Sauce Hollandaise

There is evidence to suggest that sauce hollandaise was originally named sauce d’lsigny. Isigny is a part of Normandy historically famous for its excellent dairy products and eggs (both of which are ingredients central to this sauce). However, due to the increasing import of dairy and eggs from Holland into France in the 17th century, the name hollandaise stuck. Sauce hollandaise accompanies many fish and vegetable preparations, and it is also the foundation for a number of other sauces—mou