Egg Sandwiches

Ingredients

• Two or three hard-boiled eggs
• half an ounce of butter
• some pepper
• some salt
• a sprinkling of watercress

Method

1. 1

   Mash the hard-boiled eggs very finely and mix with butter, pepper, and salt.

2. 2

   Spread liberally on bread and butter, adding watercress or mustard and cress if desired.

3. 3

   Alternatively, slice the eggs thinly and layer them between the bread with pepper, salt, and cress.

As published

This recipe was extracted from Hilda's "where is it?" of recipes (1891) by Hildagonda J. Duckitt, page 80. The excerpt below is the record exactly as published.

es. SANDWICHES— SWEETS. [S Ordinary cold meat sandwiches are much improved by the meat being minced, and hard-boiled eggs and a little parsley, both chopped fine, being mixed with the meat, and placed between the bread and butter. Many people dislike the mixture of mustard and butter, so it is generally best to omit the former. A. sprinkling of pepper, if liked, is ar improvement SANDWICHES (EGG). Two or three hard-boiled eggs, mashed very finely, and mixed with half an ounce of butter, some pepper and salt. Spread liberally on the bread and butter (cut as for an ordinary sandwich) with a sprinkling of watercress

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