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Curried Eggs

From The "Queen" cookery books: Breakfast and Lunch Dishes, 1904

Rice should be cooked separately.

Presented as published in 1904. Historical recipes may not meet modern food-safety standards. Cook from the modern interpretation below, not the original instructions.

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This recipe was extracted from The "Queen" cookery books: Breakfast and Lunch Dishes (1904) by S. Beaty-Pownall, page 14. The excerpt below is the record exactly as published.

Curried Eggs. — Boil as many eggs as you like for ten or twelve minutes till hard, then leave them in cold water till wanted. Meanwhile fry two sliced onions in loz. or 2oz. of butter till delicately coloured ; then fry in the same pan, a good spoonful of curry powder, moisten this with about a pint of stock (fish, meat, or vegetable) and stew it all together till the onions are quite tender ; now add a gill of cocoanut milk, or, failing this, a gill of cream or new milk thickened with arrowroot and a pinch of sugar
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