Cheese Pondu

Ingredients

• five or six eggs
• a third of their weight in grated Parmesan Cheese
• half this quantity in butter
• 1/2 pint of boiling milk
• yolks of two eggs
• whites of four eggs

Method

1. 1

   Mix eggs with cheese and butter, stir over heat until set, serve hot.

2. 2

   For another version, mix bread with milk and eggs, bake until set.

As published

This recipe was extracted from The encyclopædia of practical cookery (1890) by Theodore Francis Garrett, page 257. The excerpt below is the record exactly as published.

Cheese Pondu. — (1) Put five or six eg'gs into a saucepan, mix in a third of their weight in grated Parmesan Cheese, and half this quantity in butter, and stir well over a slow fire until the eggs are set. Pour the mixture into a dish, and serve very hot. Slices of toast should accompany this. (2) Remove all the crust from a French roll, and pour ^ pint of boiling milk on the crumb ; whisk the yolks of two eggs, pour them over, add jib. of grated Cheese, and beat them all well together. Beat the whites of four eggs

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