Deviled Eggs with Ham

Ingredients

• a little cold ham
• hard boiled eggs
• thick cream sauce
• dry bread crumbs
• bits of butter
• salt and paprika

Method

1. 1

   Chop cold ham finely and mix with yolks of hard boiled eggs, then put back into the whites.

2. 2

   Place in a baking dish, pour over cream sauce, sprinkle with bread crumbs, season, and bake until browned.

Nutrition per serving

As published

This recipe was extracted from Books and My Food: With Literary Quotations and Original Recipes for Every .. (1904) by Elisabeth Luther Cary, page 47. The excerpt below is the record exactly as published.

salt and paprika and pour over it a tomato sauce made as follows : Fry in a tablespoonful of butter a few leaves of parsley, a dozen fresh mush- rooms, peeled and cut in small pieces, and an onion, sliced, or a clove of garlic (the latter gives the true Italian flavor). Add half a pint of hot water, in which three bouillon capsules have been dis- solved, making a very strong stock, and a pint of canned tomatoes. Cook very gently for three hours. Strain, then stir in a lump of butter. 171 SEPTEMBER 28th "She went to the garden for parsley to stuff a rabbit." — ^Shakespease ("Taming of the Shrew"). TO make a rabbit taste like a hare, skin it and season it with black pepper and allspice. Pour over it a glass of port wine and the same amount of vinegar. Baste it with this occasionally, and after it has lain over night, stuff it with breadcrumbs, sea- soned with salt, pepper, and chopped parsley, and roast in a moderate oven. Serve with a sauce of melted butter to which currant jelly has been added. SEPTEMBER 29TH "And my Barbary hen has laid two eggs; Heaven knows the trouble we had to bring her to it" — Chables Reade ("Peg Wofl&ngton"). IF there is a little cold ham, boiled, fried or broiled, to be disposed of, chop it very fine and mix with the yolks of hard boiled eggs which have been removed from the whites and rubbed smooth. Put the mixture back in the whites, place them in a baking dish close together, pour over them a thick cream sauce, sprinkle dry bread crumbs on top, season with bits of butter

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