variants
or less commonly benedict
plural Benedicts also benedicts
: eggs Benedict or a variation on eggs Benedict made with one or more different ingredients
Its specialty is eggs, ranging from omelets, frittatas and Benedicts, to fried and poached.—
The New York Times
The New York TimesOn the menu: For breakfast and brunch, sweet and savory crepes, five varieties of benedicts … and four kinds of French toast.—Shonda Talerico Dudlicek
Shonda Talerico Dudlicek… the nearly 100 recipes—one for a baked oyster and wild mushroom casserole, one for oysters with pancetta and leeks, one for oysters Benedict …—Peggy Brawley
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Lindsay Kimble, People.com, 14 Dec. 2024
After all, this hotel pioneered room service and invented eggs benedict.
—Dobrina Zhekova, Travel + Leisure, 2 Dec. 2024
For the benedict, use dinner rolls as the base instead of English muffins, top each of them with cranberry sauce, turkey slices, a poached egg, and lemony hollandaise.
—Stephanie Gravalese, Forbes, 26 Nov. 2024
Some house specials include a short rib benedict toast and wellness bowls, like a green bowl with green spirulina, coconut yogurt, berries, mangoes, granola and hemp seeds.
—Keyla Vasconcellos, Forbes, 4 Oct. 2024
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The hotel boasts remarkable history — the creation of the eggs benedict is cited as having happened on-site, and the iconic Waldorf salad was, of course, created there, according to Hilton.
—Lindsay Kimble, People.com, 14 Dec. 2024
After all, this hotel pioneered room service and invented eggs benedict.
—Dobrina Zhekova, Travel + Leisure, 2 Dec. 2024
For the benedict, use dinner rolls as the base instead of English muffins, top each of them with cranberry sauce, turkey slices, a poached egg, and lemony hollandaise.
—Stephanie Gravalese, Forbes, 26 Nov. 2024
Some house specials include a short rib benedict toast and wellness bowls, like a green bowl with green spirulina, coconut yogurt, berries, mangoes, granola and hemp seeds.
—Keyla Vasconcellos, Forbes, 4 Oct. 2024
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Benedict 1 of 2
biographical name (1)
Ben·e·dict
ˈbe-nə-ˌdikt 
name of 16 popes: especially XIV (Prospero Lambertini) 1675–1758 (pope 1740–58); XV (Giacomo della Chiesa) 1854–1922 (pope 1914–22); XVI (
Joseph Alois Ratzinger
ˈrät-siŋ-ər
) 1927–2022 (pope 2005–13)
Benedict
2 of 2biographical name (2)
Ruth 1887–1948 née Fulton American anthropologist
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