The Hot Brown

Ingredients

1/3 cup margarine or butter
3 Tbsp. all-purpose flour
1/8 teaspoon black pepper
2-1/3 cups milk
2 slightly beaten egg yolks
1/3 cup grated Parmesan cheese
8 slices white bread, toasted
12 oz.s thinly sliced, fully cooked turkey
2 Tbsp. grated Parmesan cheese
16 strips fully cooked bacon

Instructions

For sauce, melt margarine or butter in a medium saucepan. Stir in flour and black pepper. Add milk all at once. Cook and stir till thickened and bubbly. Gradually stir _some_ of the hot mixture in the beaten egg yolks. Return all of the mixture to the saucepan; cook and stir just till bubbly. Remove from the heat. Stir in the 1/3 cup of Parmesan cheese. Arrange the slices of toast in a single layer on the unheated rack of a broiler pan. Top with sliced turkey, sauce and the 2 Tbsp. of Parmesan cheese. Broil 3 to 4 inches from heat for about 3 minutes or till the sauce is brown and bubbly. For each serving, place one toast stack on serving plate. Top each serving with 2 slices of cooked bacon, forming an "X". Serves 8.