Egg Toast

Ingredients

• a tablespoon of butter
• 2 of cream
• 6 eggs

Method

1. 1

   Warm butter and cream together in a frying-pan.

2. 2

   Break eggs in it and stir lightly until cooked; have it well seasoned; have buttered slices of toast, spread the mixture on it, and serve hot.

Nutrition per serving

As published

This recipe was extracted from The household cook book (1902) by Smiley, James B[ethuel],, page 145. The excerpt below is the record exactly as published.

6 eggs, 3 tablespoons of gravy — from poultry is best — enough fried toast to cover bottom of a flat dish, a very little grated cheese, 1 teaspoon butter. Melt the butter in a ^^-ying-pan; when hot, break into this the eggs. Stir in gravy, and EGGS 191 season; stir quickly and well up from the bottom, until the whole is a soft yellow mass. Have ready in a flat dish the fried toast. Heap the shirred eggs upon this, and serve before it hardens. SCOTCH EQQS — With 1 cup of cooked ham, chopped fine, mix ^ a cup of bread crumbs made into a paste with ^ a cui3 of milk, ^ a teaspoon of prepared mustard, a little salt, and 1 egg, well beaten ; hard=boil 6 eggs, remove the shells, and cover them with the prepared mixture, and fry about 2 minutes in very hot fat; serve either hot or cold. Chicken, veal or salmon may be substituted for the ham, but lemon juice should be added to the seasoning if salmon is used. SNOWED EQQS — Beat the whites of 6 eggs till stiff; have on the stove 2 cups of milk sweetened and flavored with vanilla; when it boils drop the beaten eggs into it by tablespoons, and as soon as they set dip them out. Let the milk cool a little, then slowly stir in the yolks of the eggs, and when thick pour it around the snowed eggs and serve. STEAMED EQQS. — Break each egg into an egg=cup, set them in a steamer and steam until cooked. They can be put in buttered patty=pans, if more convenient, and then steamed. Serve hot. STUFFED EQQS.— Cut hard-boiled eggs in two, take out the yolk, and mix it with fried onions, a little finely chopped ham, and parsley, pepper and salt; fill the whites with this mixture, and fry until the yellow browns a little. EQQ TOAST. — Take a tablespoon of butter and 2 of cream

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