eggs Benedict

[ egz ben-i-dikt ]

noun

, (sometimes lowercase)

1. a dish consisting of toast or toasted halves of English muffin covered with a thin slice of fried or broiled ham, poached eggs, and a topping of hollandaise sauce.

eggs Benedict

plural noun

1. a dish consisting of toast, covered with a slice of ham, poached egg, and hollandaise sauce

Word History and Origins

Origin of eggs Benedict¹

First recorded in 1925–30; allegedly after a patron of the Waldorf-Astoria Hotel in New York City, for whom the dish was first made (in some accounts, by Oscar Tschirky (1866–1950), the hotel's maître d')