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Eggs (Carmelite Convent recipe)

From With a saucepan over the sea, 1902

Serves 4

This can also be made with a foundation, or mattress of spinach, or any other vegetable.

Presented as published in 1902. Historical recipes may not meet modern food-safety standards. Cook from the modern interpretation below, not the original instructions.

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Ingredients

Method

As published

This recipe was extracted from With a saucepan over the sea (1902) by Adelaide Keen, page 25. The excerpt below is the record exactly as published.

EQGS. (Carmelite Convent recipe.) Butter a dish, pour into it a puree of asparagus tips, parboiled with herbs and seasoning, drained, mixed with a cup of cream, or white broth, and pressed through a sieve. Arrange this evenly, and break over it carefully four or more fresh eggs

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