Cheese Aigrettes

Ingredients

• 1 oz. of butter.
• 3 oz9. of fine flour.
• 2 ozs. of grated Parmesan cheese.
• 2 whole eggs
• and 1 yolk.
• Pepper, salt, and a little cayenne.
• 1 pint of water.

Method

1. 1

   Put the butter and water in a saucepan on the fire to boil.

2. 2

   Rub the flour through a sieve, shake it quickly into the water when boiling.

3. 3

   Stir and cook thoroughly.

4. 4

   Then add, off the fire, the eggs, beating them in one by one.

5. 5

   Add the seasoning and the cheese.

6. 6

   Drop teaspoonfuls of the mixture into hot fat, and fry a golden brown.

7. 7

   They will take about ten minutes to cook.

8. 8

   After they are dropped in the fat the pan must be drawn to the side of the fire, that they do not take a dark colour before they are cooked.

9. 9

   Drain on kitchen paper and serve at once, piled high on a folded napkin.

As published

This recipe was extracted from Domestic and economical cookery recipes (1897) by Lillie Richmond, page 2. The excerpt below is the record exactly as published.

CHEESE AIGRETTES. INGREDIENTS. 1 oz. of butter. 3 oz9. of fine flour. 2 ozs. of grated Parmesan cheese. 2 whole eggs and 1 yolk. Pepper, salt, and a little cayenne. 1 pint of water.

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