Egg Balls

Ingredients

• four eggs
• one teaspoonful of salt
• a little white pepper
• a well-beaten raw egg

Method

1. 1

   Boil the eggs for twenty minutes until hard.

2. 2

   Plunge them in cold water and remove the shell.

3. 3

   Pound the yolks into a smooth paste, then add salt, white pepper, and the raw egg.

4. 4

   Form into balls the size of grapes, roll in flour, and fry in hot fat until light brown, turning frequently.

Nutrition per serving

As published

This recipe was extracted from Mrs. Seely's Cook Book: A Manual of French and American Cookery : with .. (1902) by Lida Seely, page 47. The excerpt below is the record exactly as published.

egg balls and forcemeat balls should be put into the tureen bef ore the soup is turned into it, if one would bave mock turtle soup in perfection. As it takes much time to make forcemeat balls, they may be omitted, but egg balLs are easily prepared and should be used. Ohicken Foroemeat Balls Chop very fine half of the breast of a tender chicken, pound it in a mortar and rub it through a coarse sieve. There should be a generous cupf ul of the meat after it has been rubbed through the sieve. Pour one quarter of a cup of cream into a saucepan with a scant quarter of a cup of fine bread crumbs and a bit of whole mace. Cook until the misture forms a smooth paste. It will take about ten minutes. Remove the mace and add one tablespoonful of butter, salt, and white pepper to taste, the meat, and the white of an egg beaten to a stiff froth. Mix well, and when cool form in balls about the size of grapes. Have ready a pan of salted boiling water. Cook the balls for five minutes, turn them in a strainer and then add them to the mock turtle soup. The above balls may be prepared three or four hours before the soup is served. Bm Balls Boll four eggs for twenty minutes until hard. Plunge them in cold water and remove the shelL Pound the yolks in a 80UP8 88 mortar imtdl they become a smooth paste. Then add one tea- spoonful of salt, a little white pepper, and a well-beaten raw egg

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