Eggs in Wine Sauce

Ingredients

• one chopped onion
• a tablespoonful of flour
• a small piece of butter
• a small tumblerful of red wine
• the same of stock
• salt
• pepper
• grated nutmeg
• some hard-boiled eggs

Method

1. 1

   In a saucepan, mix onion, flour, and butter.

2. 2

   Add wine, stock, salt, pepper, and nutmeg; boil and reduce slightly.

3. 3

   Pour sauce over quartered hard-boiled eggs and serve with fried sippets.

As published

This recipe was extracted from Cookery (1897) by Marguerite Ninet, page 25. The excerpt below is the record exactly as published.

Eyys in Wine Sauce. — Put into a saucepan over the tire one chopped onion, with a tablespoonful of flour and a small piece of butter. When these ingredients are well mixed, add a small tumblerful of red wine, the same of stock, salt, pepper, and grated nutmeg; stir and let it boil, allowing it to reduce slightly. Have ready some hard-boiled eggs

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