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1890

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Presented as published in 1890. Historical recipes may not meet modern food-safety standards. Cook from the modern interpretation, not the original instructions.
Another nice dish is Creamed Eggs^ made as follows : Prepare eggs as above and mash the yolks well with a little butter, onion juice and salt, fill the halved whites with this, rounding up, and place in a baking dish ; make a rich cream gravy of milk, cream and butter, seasoned with white pepper, salt and a small pinch sugar^ and pour into the dish, leaving a narrow rim of the whites and the yolks of eggs showing above ; springe grated cheese on the gravy, and put in the oven to brown. Serve in baking dish. Delicious. EggB a la Maitre d^ Hotel, — Cut five hard-boiled eggs in quar- ters, lengthwise, and place in dish; pour over them a hot gravy made of cream and milk with a little Dutter, a seasoning of white pepper and salt, a small pinch sugar, and a thickening of flour. Serve hot. A tablespoon chopped parsley and juice of h^f a lemon may be added to gravy if likea. Very nice. Egg Balls. — Pound the yolks of eight hard-boiled eggs in a mortar and moisten with beaten yolks of three raw eggs, little salt, I)epper, powdered mace or nutmeg✪ Egg Balls. Make into round balls, and put tnrough soup about two minutes before serving, or poach them and serve on buttered toast or with any sauce preferred. Some add a little flour to the paste before making into balls. ^^g Charlotte. — Cut thin slices of stale bread divested of crust, dip into warmed butter, and line a small mold * take enough hard* boiled yolks of esgs for the mold ; chop and add to them half their quantity of bread-crumbs soaked in cream, season with pepper, add a couple of shred shallots and place these ingredients in the mold; beat up a raw egg with a tablespoon cream and add ; lay upon the top some thin slices of bread dipped into liquid^butter and put it into a tolerably hot oven to get nicely browned ; turn it out into a dish to serve. For a Sweet Charlotte^ sugar, orange-flower or rose- water, and a few blanched almonds, some shred lemon-peel✪ Egg Charlotte, etc., should be employed instead of the shallot and savory seasoning. Egg Fritters. — Cut hard-boiled eggs in two, remove yolks, and mix with them chopped cold chicken, lamb, veal or sardines, a little minced onion or parsley and a few soaked bread-crumbs ; season, and moisten with gravy or the uncooked yolk of an egg or cream, fill in the cavities level, put the two halves' together, roll in beaten egg and bread-crumbs, put in wire egg-basket, and dip in boiling lard ; when slightly brown, serve with celery, tomato sauce, or make a sauce from lemon juice, sardines, parsley, and sliced onion, stewed in vegetable broth, and a good spoonful cream ; let all cook together and when well reduced pour over the dished eggs and serve hot ; or for six eggs make a stuffing of the yolks, two tea- spoons butter, one of cream, two or three drops onion juioe✪ Egg Fritters and salt and pepper to taste. Fill eggs and fry as above. EGGS. 211 Egg Terrace. — Boil new-laid eggs ten minutes, shell, out in two. and take a small slice^ off the ends, so they will stand. Take out ^^6k^^^ ' yolks and beat in a mortar, after hav- ^3^^^^ mg passed them through a hair sieve, ^^^6JgM[wM^X-p^^ together with an equal quantity of but- ^SI^m^^mMJg^^^^ ter, a little salt, pepper, nutmeg, two ^^^<l^ft?=^^^^^^^aa^ raw eggs, and a large tablespoon chop- Bn Terr«e. pcd parsley. Mix very thoroughly, and ✪ Egg Terrace