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Buttered Eggs

From Fifty dinners, 1895

Proportions are important for the right texture.

Presented as published in 1895. Historical recipes may not meet modern food-safety standards. Cook from the modern interpretation below, not the original instructions.

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This recipe was extracted from Fifty dinners (1895) by A. R. Kenney-Herbert, page 74. The excerpt below is the record exactly as published.

buttered eggs, cooked very gently, and kept in a creamy, by no means lumpy state, to which grated Par- 6. Buttered mesan or Gruyere is added with a table- spoonful of cream to finish with. Serve upon crisply fried bread croittes. Propor- tions : an ounce and a half of fresh butter and three whole eggs, two good tablespoonfuls of the cheese

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