Eggs in a Nest

Ingredients

• six eggs
• a little olive oil
• a pint of thick white sauce
• fine shredded chicken, ham, or salmon
• fine sprigs of parsley

Method

1. 1

   Boil the eggs for twenty minutes.

2. 2

   Remove shells and separate yolks.

3. 3

   Mix whites with shredded meat and parsley.

4. 4

   Form a nest on a platter, place yolks in the center, and pour white sauce around.

5. 5

   Heat in a steamer.

As published

This recipe was extracted from Mrs. Lincoln's Boston cook book (1884) by Lincoln, Mary Johnson Bailey "Mrs. D. A. Lincoln,", page 126. The excerpt below is the record exactly as published.

Eggs in a Nest. Boil six eggs twenty minutes. Remove the shells. Separate the yolks without breaking ; or rub them to a smooth paste with a little olive oil to moisten, and shape into small balls. Cut the whites in thin narrow slices, and mix with them an equal quantit}^ of fine shredded chicken^ ham^ or salmon^ and a tahlespoonful of fine sprigs of parsley. Pile this mixture, which should be light and dry, on a platter in a circular or oval ring, and put the yolks in the centre. Set the platter in a steamer, to heat the mixture. Make a pint of thick white sauce

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