Eggs in Patty-shells

Ingredients

• Put six fresh eggs
• four chicken livers
• half a pound of calf’s liver
• ½ lb. of small, fresh mushrooms
• one table-spoonful of green or white onions
• one table-spoonful of butter
• half a table-spoonful of salt
• half a salt-spoonful of pepper
• two table-spoonfuls of Madeira wine
• half a table-spoonful of chopped parsley

Method

1. 1

   Put six fresh eggs in boiling water for seven minutes; remove and put in cold water.

2. 2

   Peel and slice them.

3. 3

   Cut in small pieces four chicken livers or half a pound of calf’s liver.

4. 4

   Peel, wash, and cut in slices ½ lb. of small, fresh mushrooms.

5. 5

   In a small saucepan, cook one tablespoon of chopped onions with one tablespoon of butter for four minutes.

6. 6

   Add livers and mushrooms, seasoned with salt and pepper, and cook for four minutes while stirring.

7. 7

   Add Madeira wine, parsley, and eggs just to warm.

8. 8

   Place patty-shells in the oven for four minutes, fill with the mixture, and serve hot.

As published

This recipe was extracted from Harper's cook book encyclopædia (1902), page 115. The excerpt below is the record exactly as published.

Eggs in Patty-shells EGGS Eggs, Stuffed them in the nest. If you wish, you can heap wine jelly about them by the spoonful, or half bury them under whipped cream. Eggs in Patty-shells. — Put six fresh eggs in boiling water for seven min- utes ; remove and put in cold water. Peel and slice them. Cut in small pieces four chicken livers or half a pound of calf’s liver. Peel, wash, and cut in slices % lb. of small, fresh mushrooms. Put in a small sauce- pan one table-spoonful of green or white onions, chopped fine, with one table-spoonful of butter. Cook the onicns four minutes; toss them, as they must not brown ; add the livers and mushrooms, seasoned with half a table-spoonful of salt and half a salt- spoonful of pepper. Cook four min- utes while stirring ; add two table- spoonfuls of Madeira wine, half a table-spoonful of chopped parsley

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