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1887

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Presented as published in 1887. Historical recipes may not meet modern food-safety standards. Cook from the modern interpretation, not the original instructions.
Four eggs, one tablespoonful of butter, half a tea- spoonful of saltScrambled Eggs. Beat the eggs, and add the salt to them. Melt the butter in a saucepan. Turn in the beaten eggs, stir quickly over a hot fire for one minute, and serve. Fricasseed Eggs. Boil half a dozen eggs hard, and cut them into slices. Then make a sauce as follows: Chop very 88 FROTHED EGGS. fine a small onion, a little parsley, and two- or three mushrooms, and put them into a stew-pan with two ounces of butter, seasoning with salt and pepper. Let them stew gently, but do not brown them. Then add a gill of cream mixed with a little flourFricasseed Eggs, for thickening the sauce, lay the sliced eggs in, allow all to come to a boil, and serve. — The Caterer. {By per .) Frothed Eggs. Take the yolks of eight eggs and the whites of four, and beat them up with a tablespoonful of water and the strained juice of one lemon. Sweeten it to taste, add a pinch of salt, and then fry the same as an omelet. Have ready the four remaining whites whipped to a stiff froth with a pound of pulverized sugar, and flavored with vanilla or lemon. Then dish the omelet, heap the frothed egg high upon it, and put it in the oven for a few minutes to brown. — The Caterer. (By per .) Cheese Fritters. “ Three ounces of flour, one egg, one gill of tepid water, three ounces of grated cheese, a little pepper and salt, and one ounce of butterCheese Fritters. The flour and condiments are put into a basin, and the water added by degrees. Then the cheese with the yolk of the egg is added, and last the white beaten to a stiff froth. Drop this by spoonfuls into boiling lard, and cook three minutes. The results are delicious golden-brown balls, as big as your fist, permeated with the flavor of the cheese.” WELSH RAREBIT. 89 Welsh Rarebit. Grate one pint of cheese ; sprinkle on it half a teaspoonful of mustard, one-fourth of a teaspoonful of salt, and a speck of cayenne. Heap this on slices of buttered toastWelsh Rarebit. Put in the hot oven for a few moments, and when the cheese begins to melt, serve at once. — New Cook-Book: Miss Parloa. Estes & Lauriat, Pubs. (By per .) The dairy was certainly worth looking at ; it was a scene to sicken for with a sort of calenture in hot and dusty streets, — such coolness, such purity, such fresh fragrance of new-pressed cheese, of firm butter, of wooden vessels perpetually bathed in pure water ; such soft coloring of red earthenware and creamy surfaces, brown wood and polished tin, gray limestone and rich orange-red rust on the iron weights and hooks and hinges. But one gets only a confused notion of these details when they surround a distractingly pretty girl of seventeen, standing on her little pattens, and rounding her dimpled arm to lift a pound of butter out of the scale. — Adam Bede: George Eliot. Curds and Cream. Curds and Cream