Anchovy, Escaloped

Ingredients

• Rub a small cake-tin with butter
• a table-spoonful of sugar
• strew with cracker-crumbs
• a few pieces of butter
• yolks of two eggs
• a little cream
• a little sugar

Method

1. 1

   Clean and rinse good anchovy, and dry on clean linen.

2. 2

   Rub a small cake-tin with butter and strew with cracker-crumbs; then place a layer of anchovy, over which strew a tablespoonful of sugar and bread-crumbs, then a layer of anchovy, sugar, and crumbs.

3. 3

   Place a few pieces of butter on the top.

4. 4

   Beat yolks of two eggs with a little cream and sugar, and pour over the anchovy.

5. 5

   Bake in a moderate oven, but only for a few minutes, till the egg mixture is settled.

6. 6

   Serve in the tin.

As published

This recipe was extracted from Harper's cook book encyclopædia (1902), page 125. The excerpt below is the record exactly as published.

Anchovy, Escaloped. — Clean and rinse good anchovy, and dry on clean linen. Rub a small cake - tin with butter and strew with cracker-crumbs ; then place a layer of anchovy, over which strew a table-spoonful of sugar and bread - crumbs, then a layer of anchovy, sugar, and crumbs. Place a few pieces of butter on the top. Beat yolks of two eggs with a little cream

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