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Cassell's dictionary of cookery

1892

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Presented as published in 1892. Historical recipes may not meet modern food-safety standards. Cook from the modern interpretation, not the original instructions.
Eggs (Fari^is). — Remove the shells care- ftilly from six hard-boiled egg-s, and prepare a forcemeat with the following ingredients : — ■ Pound together two ounces of ham, one ounce of anchovies, the same of veal and fat bacon, salt, cayenne, and mace to taste, with a tea- spoonful of minced sweet herbs,_ and one of parsley✪ Eggs (Fari^is). Cover the eggs with this forcemeat, roU them in beaten egg, and sprinkle bread- crumbs lightly over all. Fry them of a pale brown or golden colour, or the eggs may be put into the oven. Serve with gravy in the dish. Time : ten minutes to boil the eggs ; five to seven minutes to fry ; a quarter of an hour to bake. Sufficient for three or four persons. Eggs (en Suisse). — Beat up six eggs, yolks and whites, add to them two or three young onions and some parsley skred very fine ; season with salt and pepper. Mix the above with equal quantities of melted butter and grated cheese✪ Eggs (en Suisse), about two ounces of each, and fry slightly, finishing the upper side with a salamander or red-hot shovel. Time, six to eight miautes to fry. Probable cost, lOd. Sufficient for two or tlu-ee persons. Eggs, Forced. — Make a forcemeat with the yolks of eight eggs boiled till hard, a quarter of a pound of butter, some finely- chopped herbs, salt, pepper, and nutmeg, and a tea-cupful of bread-crumbs soaked in milk✪ Eggs, Forced. Beat all together and fill the whites from which the yolks have been removed ; then close them in their natural form and lay them into a well- buttered pie-dish, throw the remaining force- meat over them, and set the dish in a Dutch oven before a clear, brisk fii-e, for a quarter of an hour. Probable cost. Is. 3d. Sufficient for three or four persons. Eggs, Fricasseed. — Dissolve two ounces of butter in a stewpan, and stu- into it a little flour. Boil eight eggs hard, cut them, after taking off the shell, into quarters, add them to the butter ia the stc^\•pan, throw over them a good quantity of shi-ed parsley, a little nutmeg and salt, and shake the pan roimd tiU the ingredients are well absorbed by the egg ; then throw in a small cupful of cream✪ Eggs, Fricasseed, shake the pan again, but do not break the eggs. When the sauce is thick- and fine, put the eggs on a dish, and serve with the sauce thrown over, and a garnish of lemon round the dish. Time : ten minutes to boil eggs ; ten minutes to prepare the fricassee. Probable cost. Is. 3d. Eggs, Fricasseed (another way). — Boil eight eggs fifteen miautes, take off the shells and cut the white parts of them in two length- wise. Preserve the yolks whole, and put them in the middle of a dish, cut the whites into fine strips, or any other shape Hked, and lay them round ; pour white sauce over, or a mixture of mustard and melted butter✪ Eggs, Fricasseed (another way), and serve hot. Probable cost, Isi. Sufficient for four persons. Eggs, Fricasseed, White.— Boil six eggs hard, and slice them, each egg into half a dozen slices. Make a sauce as follows : — Chop some parsley, a piece of shallot, and a^ few mushrooms, all very finely ; put these iato a ✪ Eggs, Fricasseed, White