Cream and Anchovy Toast

Ingredients

• four slices of bread
• a lump of butter
• two eggs
• 2 table-spoonfuls of chopped olives
• 1 table-spoonful of anchovy paste
• 1 breakfast-cupful of Cream
• 2oz. of butter
• 1 pint of Cream

Method

1. 1

   Cut bread into halves and trim crusts.

2. 2

   Fry in hot butter until golden brown.

3. 3

   Beat eggs and mix with olives, anchovy paste, Cream, and butter.

4. 4

   Heat mixture in a basin over hot water until thick.

5. 5

   Pour over fried bread, let cool, then top with whipped Cream and anchovy fillets.

As published

This recipe was extracted from The encyclopædia of practical cookery (1890) by Theodore Francis Garrett, page 537. The excerpt below is the record exactly as published.

four slices of bread about J,in. in thickness, then cut each into halves and trim off the crusts. Put a lump of butter in a stewpan, place it over the fire until the blue smoke rises, then put in the pieces of bread and fry them a golden brown. When fried, put them on a sheet of kitchen-paper to drain. Beat the yolks of two eggs in a basin and mix with them 2 table-spoonfuls of chopped olives, 1 table-spoonful of anchovy paste, 1 breakfast-cupful of Cream, and 2oz. of butter. Season to taste with cayenne pepper and mushroom ketchup. Stand the basin in a saucepan Cream — continued. with hot water to about three-parts its height, place it over the fire, and stir the contents until thick. Put the squares of fried bread on a dish, pour the contents of the basin over them, and leave until cold. Skin and bone five or six anchovies, Fig. 561. Cream and Anchovy Toast. and divide each into four fillets ; whip J pint of Cream to a stiff froth, and pile it on the top of the anchovy mixture when quite cold. Lay the fillets of anchovies lightly on the top of the Cream, and serve (see Pig. 561). Cream -with Barley (Creme d'Org-e). — Put 1 pint each of milk and water into a stewpan with 1 breakfast-cupful of pearl barley, and boil until the latter is soft. Bub the barley through a fine sieve, and mix in with it 1 pint of Cream, 2oz. of butter

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