Eggs in Bread Sauce

Ingredients

• Slice I good-sized onion
• add I pt. of milk
• 2 cloves
• yi a blade of mace
• a teaspoon ful of salt
• I heaping tablespoonful of butter
• add ^ a cupful of stale bread crumbs
• Drop in carefully 5 eggs

Method

1. 1

   Slice onion, cover with boiling water, let stand, drain.

2. 2

   Add milk, cloves, mace, and salt; simmer for half an hour.

3. 3

   Rub through a sieve.

4. 4

   In a saucepan, melt butter and flour, add milk and onion, stir until thickened.

5. 5

   Add bread crumbs, season, simmer, and turn into a buttered baking dish.

6. 6

   Add eggs and bake until set.

Nutrition per serving

As published

This recipe was extracted from 365 breakfast dishes (1901), page 40. The excerpt below is the record exactly as published.

Eggs in Bread Sauce. Slice I good-sized onion, cover with lx)il- ing water and let stand 5 minutes. Drain, add I pt. of milk, 2 cloves, yi a blade of mace and ^ of a teaspoon ful of salt and simmer for ^ an hour. Rub through a 151 December^ sieve, pressing throagh as much of the pulp as ix)ssible. Iiito a saucepan put i heaping tablespoonful each of butter and flour. Set over the fire and when melted and mixed add the milk and onion and stir until smooth and thickened. Now add ^ a cupful of stale bread crumbs and salt and pepper to taste. Simmer for 5 minutes and turn into a but- tered baking dish. Drop in carefully 5 eggs

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