Salt fish, soaked in water to rehydrate and remove salt, boiled and served with boiled parsnips and egg-sauce AKA hollandaise ❋ Gailcarriger (2009)
The young person carved a fowl with the utmost delicacy, and asked so distinctly for egg-sauce, that poor Briggs, before whom that delicious condiment was placed, started, made a great clattering with the ladle, and once more fell back in the most gushing hysterical state. ❋ Unknown (2006)
Do, prithee, dear Allworthy, come and dine with me at the Hercules Pillars: I have bespoke a shoulder of mutton roasted, and a spare-rib of pork, and a fowl and egg-sauce. ❋ Unknown (2004)
It may be served with egg-sauce instead of parsnip, or boiled and served without flaking with the usual sauce. ❋ Barkham Burroughs (N/A)
Pour egg-sauce over it, or parsnips, boiled and beaten fine with butter and cream. ❋ Barkham Burroughs (N/A)
Bread-sauce and gravy, the same as for roast fowl, are exceedingly nice accompaniments to roast pigeons, as also egg-sauce. ❋ Isabella Mary (1861)
And the Cotton Snob verily, if persuaded it was the thing to have a juvenile African served up whole on state occasions, stuffed like a young grunter or prepared like a baron of beef, would never once hesitate to have young Sambo served with parsley and egg-sauce, or whatever else might be the taste of the hour; and ❋ Unknown (1860)
The fowl and sausages were cold, and the gravy and the egg-sauce stagnant, before the Captain remembered that they were on the board, and fell to with the assistance of Diogenes, whose united efforts quickly dispatched the banquet. ❋ Charles Dickens (1841)
Having propped Florence up with cushions on the sofa, which was already wheeled into a warm corner for her greater comfort, the Captain pursued his cooking with extraordinary skill, making hot gravy in a second little saucepan, boiling a handful of potatoes in a third, never forgetting the egg-sauce in the first, and making an impartial round of basting and stirring with the most useful of spoons every minute. ❋ Charles Dickens (1841)
The Captain had spread the cloth with great care, and was making some egg-sauce in a little saucepan: basting the fowl from time to time during the process with a strong interest, as it turned and browned on a string before the fire. ❋ Charles Dickens (1841)
Then drain it, and send it to table, garnished with alternate heaps of grated horseradish and curled parsley, and accompanied by a boat of egg-sauce. ❋ Eliza Leslie (1822)
Have ready in a small tureen, egg-sauce made with, drawn butter, thickened with hard-boiled eggs chopped fine. ❋ Eliza Leslie (1822)
The most usual way of preparing salt cod for eating when it comes to table, is (after picking out all the bones) to mince it fine on your plate, and mix it with mashed potato, parsnip, and egg-sauce; seasoning it to your taste with cayenne and mustard. ❋ Eliza Leslie (1822)
Hercules Pillars: I have bespoke a shoulder of mutton roasted, and a spare-rib of pork, and a fowl and egg-sauce. ❋ Henry Fielding (1730)
"And he said it was the best egg-sauce he had ever tasted? ❋ Blyton, Enid, 1898?-1968 (1955)
Perhaps with egg-sauce, and perhaps I might roast a duck, or a chicken ---- " ❋ Fredrika Bremer (1833)
person1: "I can't believe they ran out of [mayonnaise], all they had left was egg sauce."
person2: "did you think the [packet] with [the egg] on it was egg sauce and not mayonnaise? WOW! this is an egg sauce moment." ❋ Dizzyguy (2021)
