Eggs Cooter Brown

Eggs Cooter Brown – Not Eggs Lemuel Benedict

Southern version of a NYC classic 

As the story goes, Lem Benedict (retired Wall Street stock broker) stumbled into the Waldorf with the hope of finding a cure for his hang-over and requested “buttered toast, poached eggs, crisp bacon and a hooker of hollandaise”. The Waldorf brass were so impressed they added it to the menu changing the toast to an English muffin and the bacon to ham; And naming it Eggs Benedict.

Now about 30 years earlier, there was a war brewing. Cooter Brown lived on the Mason-Dixon line with family on both sides and he didn’t want to fight for either side. So fear of being drafted by one or the other, he decided to get drunk and stay drunk for the duration of the war. Neither side would want a useless drunk and he wouldn’t be drafted. I am sure he must have had several hang-overs and stumbled around alot, but I do doubt he ever wandered through the doors of the Waldorf in NYC.  So enjoy Eggs Cooter Brown

Eggs Cooter Brown

 2 slices of buttered toast

2 thick (1/2 inch) slices of fried bologna

 2 eggs sunny side up 

 

Salt and pepper to taste

  1/4 cup pepper jack cheese sauce

 

Layer on a plate as listed and enjoy this Southern version of a Yankee classic