Egg Dormers

Ingredients

• 5 or 6 hard-boiled eggs
• 1 table-sp. white sauce
• 3 oz. cooked chicken
• 1 oz. cooked ham or tongue
• 1 tea-sp. chopped parsley
• Grated lemon rind
• Pepper
• Salt
• A little flour
• Egg and bread-crumbs

Method

1. 1

   Cut the hard-boiled eggs in halves lengthwise and remove the yolks.

2. 2

   Rub the yolks through a wire sieve into a basin, and add the chicken and ham finely minced.

3. 3

   Season with parsley, pepper, salt, and a little grated lemon rind, and bind with white sauce.

4. 4

   Fill the eggs with this mixture, place two halves together, roll in flour, and egg and bread-crumb carefully.

5. 5

   Fry in boiling fat to a nice brown colour, and serve hot, garnished with parsley or watercress.

Nutrition per serving

As published

This recipe was extracted from Cookery for every household (1914) by Florence B. Jack, page 509. The excerpt below is the record exactly as published.

pepper, salt, and a pinch of nutmeg. Cut the hard-boiled egg in’ slices, and prepare a gill of good white sauce. Then grease a fireproof dish, and arrange the spaghetti and eggs in it in layers. Sprinkle over half the grated cheese, pour the sauce 318 COOKERY FOR EVERY HOUSEHOLD on the top, and then the remainder of the cheese. Lay on a few small pieces of butter, and brown in a quick oven. Probable cost, 10 d. 1333, Eggs with Vegetable Marrow 4 hard-boiled eggs. 1 small vegetable mar- row. 1 onion. | pt. white sauce. 1 dessert-sp. chopped parsley. 1 yolk of egg. A pinch of mace. Choose a young fresh marrow, and cook it in boil- ing water along with the onion until tender. Then drain and arrange it in a hot dish with the eggs cut in quarters or slices. Make a white sauce (Recipe 671), using half milk, and half water in which the marrow was cooked. Season it with white pepper, salt, a pinch of ground mace and the chopped parsley. When thoroughly cooked, remove it from the fire and stir in the yolk of egg. Pour this sauce over the marrow and eggs, and serve very hot. Probable cost, Is. 1334. Eggs a la Clifton 4 hard-boiled eggs. Egg and bread-crumbs. A little flour. 1 gill brown sauce. Salt. Pepper. Cut the eggs across in two pieces so that they stand like little pyramids. Coat them lightly with flour seasoned with pepper and salt, and then egg and bread-crumb them. Flatten the crumbs on so as to keep the form of the eggs, and then fry them in boiling fat to a golden brown colour. Arrange them neatly on a hot dish with the pointed ends up, and pour the brown sauce tidily round. Probable cost, 10a!. 1335. Egg Croquettes 2 hard-boiled eggs. 1 or 2 table-sps. white sauce. ltea-sp. chopped parsley A squeeze of lemon juice. Salt. Pepper. Some scraps of pastry. Chop the eggs, and add to them enough white, or other suitable sauce, to bind them together. Season with pepper, salt, parsley, and a squeeze of lemon juice. A few chopped mushrooms may be added if available, or a little grated cheese. Use this mixture for making the croquettes, and follow- ing the directions given for Cold Meat Croquettes {Recipe 1018). Probable cost, 6 d. 1336. Egg Cutlets 3 hard-boiled eggs. | oz. butter. | oz. flour. £ gill milk. 2 table-sps. bread- crumbs. J tea-sp. anchovy or shrimp essence. 6 or 8 button mush- rooms. Egg and bread-crumbs. A little flour. Seasoning. Shell the eggs and chop them rather finely, melt the butter in a small saucepan, add the flour, and mix until smooth. Then draw the saucepan to one side, add the milk, and cook again over the fire, stirring all the time until smooth and thick. Add now the chopped eggs, the mushrooms finely chopped, the bread-crumbs, and seasoning. Mix well together, and spread the mixture on a plate to cool. When firm to the touch, divide the mixture into eight or ten equal-sized pieces, and form these into cutlet shapes with the aid of a little flour. Egg and bread-crumb them, and fry in hot fat to a golden brown. Drain well on kitchen paper, and stick a small piece of parsley stalk in the end of each. Dish in a circle on a hot dish, and garnish with parsley. Notes. — The same mixture may be made up in other shapes if preferred. The mushrooms may be omitted. Probable cost, 9 d. 1337. Egg 5 or 6 hard-boiled eggs. 1 table-sp. white sauce. 3 oz. cooked chicken. 1 oz. cooked ham or tongue. Dormers 1 tea-sp. chopped parsley Grated lemon rind

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