Cheese Aigrettes

Ingredients

• 30ZS. fine Flour
• 10z. Butter
• 2 Eggs
• 1 yolk
• 2ozs. Parmesan Cheese
• 3pt. Water
• Cayenne
• Salt

Method

1. 1

   Put the water and butter into a pan and let it boil; then shake in the flour and beat well.

2. 2

   Drop in the eggs one by one without beating them first, and beat each well into the mixture.

3. 3

   Add the grated cheese.

4. 4

   Drop rough little bits into boiling fat and serve them heaped on a dish sprinkled with a little fresh grated cheese.

As published

This recipe was extracted from The King's College Hospital book of cooking recipes (1907) by King's College Hospital, page 38. The excerpt below is the record exactly as published.

Cheese Aigrettes. < 30ZS. fine Flour. ioz. Butter. 2 Eggs and 1 yolk. 2ozs. Parmesan Cheese. - 3pt. Water. Cayenne and Salt. Put the water and butter into a pan and let it boil; then shake in the flour and beat well; then drop in the eggs one by one without beating them first, and beat each well into the mixture, and then add the grated cheese. Drop rough little bits into boiling fat and serve them heaped on a dish sprinkled with a little fresh grated cheese. Mrs. Crack. Cheese Balls. 2ozs. Parmesan Cheese, grated. 2 whites of Eggs. Pepper, Salt, and Cayenne to taste. Beat the whites of the eggs into a very stiff froth; mix the cheese, pepper and salt, gently stir in the whites of eggs. Form into halls in the hand; with a fork drop them into boiling fat, and serve with grated cheese sprinkled over. Mrs. Abbot. Cheese Fritters. Beat the whites of 2 eggs to quite a stiff froth, add 2ozs. of grated cheese, and a little pepper and salt; beat this quickly till the egg foams; have ready some 94 KING’S COLLEGE HOSPITAL TO SOUTH LONDON. fat boiling, drop pieces of the mixture in, and one minute will suffice for cooking. Pile on a hot dish and serve. Mrs. Crack. Cheese Patties. Line some patty-pans with thin puff paste; beat the yolk of an egg with loz. of grated cheese; add a dessert-spoonful of cream, and cayenne pepper and salt to taste and the well-whisked white of an egg. Fill the cases three parts with the mixture, and bake in a quick oven. Miss Bailey. Cheese Pudding’. i teacup ful Breadcrumbs, ioz. grated Cheese, i Egg. Pepper and Salt. About a pint of Milk. Bake in a quick oven for £ hour or 20 minutes. Mr. Napper. Cheese Shortcake. Jib. of Flour. lib. of Parmesan Cheese. 11b. of Butter. A little Cayenne. Mix and roll out thin and cut into shapes and bake in an oven not too hot. 7 Mrs. Crack. Cheese Souffle. 20zs. Flour. 20zs. Butter

Cook this with the app: pantry check, scaling, and the assistant.