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1897

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Presented as published in 1897. Historical recipes may not meet modern food-safety standards. Cook from the modern interpretation, not the original instructions.
Eyys in Wine Sauce. — Put into a saucepan over the tire one chopped onion, with a tablespoonful of flour and a small piece of butter. When these ingredients are well mixed, add a small tumblerful of red wine, the same of stock, salt, pepper, and grated nutmeg; stir and let it boil, allowing it to reduce slightly. Have ready some hard-boiled eggs cut in quarters ; pour the sauce over them, and serve with fried sippets. F.yya 1,1 Geary. — Make some good strong meat gravy hot ; boil some water with a little salt and a teacupful of vinegar ; into this break as many eggs as are required, and as will conveniently lie side by side in the saucepan, let them boil for two minutes, lift them out carefully into a shallow hot dish ; pour the gravy over. Fried Eyy-i. Work into a small piece of butter a handful of breadcrumbs, some chopped chivesFried Eggs, salt and pepper, butter some petite x cainaea (paper cases), line each with the mixture just made, break an egg in each one, grill them, and just before serving hold a red hot shovel over them for a few seconds. Staffed F.yyx (Savoury). — Boil some eggs hard, cut off a small piece from one end so as to make them stand straight, take out the yolks and pound them in a mortar with filleted anchovies, a little butter, and a sprinkling of tomato and anchovy sauces, put in plenty of pepper ; fill the whites again with the paste and garnish with parsleyStuffed Eggs (Savoury). The stuffing can bo greatly varied with different ingredients. 04 COOKERY, POTATOES. I here are two ways of boiling these useful tubers ; either steam them or else put them over the fire in cold water enough to cover them, put on the lid and let them boil till the skin shows signs of bursting. ■•<lter which pour the water away, cover the saucepan, and stand it on the side of the fire to dry a little hef ore peeling them or sending them to the table in their jackets ; they can of course be peeled first and treated in the same way. To steam them put about three inches of water into a dee]) saucepan; the potatoes are then placed on a strainer which hooks round the sides of the utensil (and which can be made by any local tinsmith), and the lid is put on ; stand it over the fire, and the potatoes will be done when the water has evaporated. There are a great many kinds of steamers made now, such as the Boilerette, etc., which would obviate the necessity of having the above-mentioned strainer, though it is a useful thing to possess. I’otatoe* (Fried).- These can be made from cold boiled potatoes or raw ones ; both ways give an equally delicious result and also make a change. If previously boiled, slice' them fairly thin, or cut them into two or three pieces each, put them into the frying pan with hot lard, moisten them with a few drops of milk, but do this very sparingly, stir them about a little, then cover them with a dish fitting the pan, let them slowh fry a good colour till the underneath part forms almost a crust, then turn over the pan, and if EGGS AND POTATOES. 65