Cheese Fondu

Ingredients

• one cupful of bread crumbs
• two cupfuls of fresh sweet milk
• three eggs (whipped very light)
• one tablespoonful of melted butter
• a pinch of soda
• pepper
• salt
• half a pound of grated cheese

Method

1. 1

   Butter a baking dish, pour the mixture in it, strew dry crumbs of bread over the fondu and brown in a quick oven.

2. 2

   Serve at once, as it will fall if left to stand.

As published

This recipe was extracted from The New century cook book (1899), page 66. The excerpt below is the record exactly as published.

Cheese Fondu. For Breakfast. To six or eight eggs well beaten add small cup water and one-half cup milk, salt and pepper. Put a cup of good cheese (not strong) in baking pan with little water and set on the stove to melt, mashing and stirring all the time; add butter size of walnut; when cheese is melted pour in the beaten eggs, stirring and mixing well; lay a few (five or six) narrow slices light bread on the top and set in the oven. Bake twenty or twenty-five minutes till brown on top and set all through. Slip the pan on a plate or into pudding dish and send to table. Cheese Fondu. Soak one cupful of bread crumbs in two cupfuls of fresh sweet milk, beat into these three eggs (whipped very light), one tablespoonf ul of melted butter, a pinch of soda dissolved in hot water, pepper and salt, and lastly half a pound of grated cheese

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