Eggs the Good Woman’s Way

Ingredients

• an ounce of butter
• a teaspoonful of flour
• three Eggs
• as much cream as will make it a thick batter
• a little salt

Method

1. 1

   Fry a sliced onion in butter until done but not brown.

2. 2

   Add flour and whisk, then add cream to make a thick batter.

3. 3

   Stir in the yolks of the Eggs, then fold in the beaten whites.

4. 4

   Bake in a buttered mould for 45 minutes and serve with béchamel sauce.

As published

This recipe was extracted from Mrs. Roundell's Practical cookery book (1898) by Roundell, Charles Mrs, page 273. The excerpt below is the record exactly as published.

Eggs the Good Woman’s Way. — ( Family Recipe, 1830.) — Fry a sliced onion in an ounce of butter till it is done, but not brown. Add a teaspoonful of flour and whisk them well together, and add as much cream as will make it a thick batter. Put it into a basin, and break in three Eggs, one at a time, using only the yolks. Work the Eggs into the batter, adding a little salt

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