Cheese Fondu

Ingredients

• Four eggs
• the weight of two in cheese
• the weight of two in butter
• pepper to taste
• salt to taste

Method

1. 1

   Beat yolks, add grated cheese and butter, season, and mix.

2. 2

   Whisk egg whites and fold in.

3. 3

   Bake in a souffle dish until risen and serve hot.

As published

This recipe was extracted from The new practical housekeeping (1890) by Estelle Woods Wilcox, page 106. The excerpt below is the record exactly as published.

Cheese Fondu, — There are many waj's of preparing this dish, of which the following are considered the best : Four eggs, the weight of two in cheese, Parmesan or Cheshire if obtainable, the weight of two in butter ; pepper and salt to taste. Separate the yolks from the whites of the eggs ; beat the former in a basin and grate the cheese, or cut it into very thin flakes. Break the butter into small pieces, add it to the other ingredients with sufficient pepper and salt to season nicely, and beat the mixture thoroughly. Well whisk the whites of eggs, stir them lightly in last, and put into oven as quickly as possible. Bake in a souffle dish or small round cake tin. Fill only half full, as it should rise very much. Pin napkin round the dish if there is no ornamental receptacle, and serve very hot and quickly. If allowed to stand after taken from the oven, the beauty and lightness of the fondu will be completely spoiled. If one has not an ornamental receptacle, a pretty way of serving is to line the baking pan with paper cut in a iringe at the top. Or bake in indi- vidual molds or tins of small size lined thus with paper, or in thick paper molds of any fancied form, remembering that they must be only half filled when put in oven. Another excellent recipe is to take as many eggs as there are to be persons at table, weigh them in the shell, and take one-third their weight in the best cheese to be had, and one-sixth as much butter as cheese. To the well-beaten eggs add the grated cheese and the butter broken into small pieces, and stir together with a wooden spoon ; put over the fire and stir until thick and soft ; add salt and pepper to taste

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