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Cheese Fondue, a la Savarin

From Cooking for profit, 1886

Serves 1

Do not overcook, as the cheese becomes tough and ropy.

A modern interpretation · AI-generated from the original record

Ingredients

  • 4 ounces cheese
  • 3 eggs
  • butter size of a guinea egg

Method

  1. Grate the cheese, mix the butter with it in a pan over the fire, break in the eggs, season with pepper, scramble all together same as scrambled eggs, but not too hard.

As published

This recipe was extracted from Cooking for profit (1886) by Jessup Whitehead, page 8. The excerpt below is the record exactly as published.

Cheese Fondue, a la Savarin. It is one form of cheese omelet. Take equal weights of cheese and eggs and one fourth as much butter — that would be 3 eggs, 4 ounces cheese, butter size of a guinea egg

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