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How else do you cook your Hollondaise sauce for the sparrow grass?
you cheat!
-melt the butter in a micro wave, and make the hollondaise in a blender.. sure it gets whipped up and is lighter and airier than the real stuff... but that's okay. it never curdles, and its fast!
(put egg, lemon juice and a little dijon mustard in bottom of blender,(and a dash of salt and pepper) Melt butter,
Start blender and immediately start pouring melted butter in a thin but steady stream-- turn blender off as soon as all butter has been added. serve asap.)
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interesting how almost nothing is know about her
That we know anything about her is due to her disciple, Zosimus of Panopolis (who lived in the late 3rd or early 4th century). According to Z., Mary wrote an alchemcial treatise called Peri kaminon kai organon (Concerning furnaces and apparatus). Mary either invented or was the first recorded to have described the bain-marie. I got this information from The Jewish Alchemists: A History and Source Book by Rapahel Patai, 1994. Also, the German for bain-marie is Marienbad. Always loved the Resnais flick Last Year in Marienbad. Thanks for the links.
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This all seems admirably clear; and second the thanks for the links. So what we're saying is, someone needs to let the OED know it's nuffink to do with Mary meeks and mild? oh, and btw Fong, I was simply taking the piss out of calling something a "double boiler" when the whole purpose of the article is to avoid boiling! But mebbe youze guys, if you're allergic to French, could call it a "freedom boiler" or sumfink... 
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Bain-marie is also a term used for a type of double-boiler with holes in the bottom of the top pan. It is used to steam veggies and such.
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Similar to the platform with holes on a tripod that you put inside a saucepan to steam veggies? I've always just known it as a steamer.
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from Bing's site: A bigger version of the old stand by stainless steel steamer basketI would have written "standby"... but then, I can't cook... 
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