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WYLIE DUFRESNE loves eggs. He particularly loves eggs Benedict and wanted to put the dish on the dinner menu at WD-50, but of course it had to be a different kind of eggs Benedict, a Wylie Dufresne kind of eggs Benedict: novel in look, concentrated in taste.
He started with the eggs themselves. Why not jettison the vapid whites? And why not find a way to pack a lot of yolk into a form that would hold together without getting chalky, the way a yolk at the center of a hard-boiled egg can get?
To that end he blended yolks, poured the liquid into long plastic sleeves, poached it slowly and cut the results into rounded columns. Mission accomplished.
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