Baked Eggs
From Books and My Food: With Literary Quotations and Original Recipes for Every .., 1904
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This recipe was extracted from Books and My Food: With Literary Quotations and Original Recipes for Every .. (1904) by Elisabeth Luther Cary, page 48. The excerpt below is the record exactly as published.
season with salt and green sweet peppers, chopped fine. Boil for a couple of minutes. Keep hot over boiling water; when ready to serve, put in three hard-boiled eggs, cut in small pieces. OCTOBER 4TH ''Fanny must run down to Briarfield and buy some muffins and crumpets." — Chaslotte Bront£ ("Shirley"). CRUMPETS are not fashionable with the ordinary American baker, but they repay the trouble of mak- ing them at home. Put in a large bowl five cupfuls of sifted flour, a tablespoon- ful of sugar and a teaspoonful of salt 175 Dissolve a quarter of a yeast-cake in a little luke-warm water, then add it to two cupfuls of warm water, pour on the flour and beat into a smooth batten Cover and let stand over night. In the morning beat into the sponge three tablespoonfuls of melted butter. Let the mixture rise half an hour longer in a warm place, and bake in mufiin-rings on a griddle. OCTOBER 5TH "The vulgar boil, the learned roast, an egg.'' — Pope. ONE can easily be learned enough to roast, or at least bake, an egg, and for this purpose come very convenient egg-bakers, of different sizes to suit the number of eggs. Butter the dish, allowing a tablespoonful of butter for four eggs; break the eggs carefully into the dish; set in rather cool oven until the white becomes set, but not hard. Season with salt, pepper, a little chopped parsley, and a few drops of onion juice, or, if there is a bit of cold ham in the house, a teaspoonful of that, chopped fine
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