Eggs en Surprise

Ingredients

• a nest-mould
• wine jelly coloured green
• vanilla cream
• one with coffee cream

Method

1. 1

   Fill a nest-mould with green wine jelly and chill until set.

2. 2

   Fill egg-moulds with vanilla and coffee cream, freeze, then turn out and place in the center of the jelly-nest.

As published

This recipe was extracted from À la mode cookery (1902) by Harriet Anne de Salis, page 58. The excerpt below is the record exactly as published.

Eggs en Surprise. 8. Rognons a la CuMo. 9. Macedon Jelly. SWEETS 157 white skin, divide them into their natural sections, remove the pips. Then dip each section into the boiling sugar, holding them on the point of a fine skewer. Oil a mould with sweet almond-oil and arrange the pieces of orange at the bottom and sides quite closely. Keep in a dry coolish place, and when dry and firm turn out the shape very carefully and fill up the centre with whipped cream. Sprinkle ground pistachio-nuts over all. Corbeilles Fantastiques Weigh two eggs in the shell, and take the same weight of butter, sugar, and Vienna flour ; beat the butter to a cream, and beat the whites and yolks together for ten minutes, and mix them lightly with the butter ; add the sugar, then the flour, also some grated lemon-peel and a few drops of some flavouring essence. Bake for twenty minutes in small dariole- moulds, turn them out, and let them get cold. Care- fully scoop out the middles, cover the outsides with marmalade, and roll them in grated pistachio-kernels ; put a dessert-spoonful of brandy cherries into each case, make a whip of cream, flavoured with a few drops of ratafia, and lay on the top of each case with cherries well piled up. Cut angelica in strips to form handles to the baskets. Eggs en Surprise Take a nest-mould and fill it with wine jelly coloured green and which has been chopped fine, put 158 COOKERY A LA MODE it on ice for some hours, when it will all have clung together and turn out all right. Have some egg-moulds, fill two of them with vanilla cream and one with coffee cream

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