Eggs with Black Butter

Ingredients

• one ounce of butter
• six very fresh eggs
• a pinch of salt
• half a pinch of white pepper
• two teaspoonfuls of tarragon vinegar

Method

1. 1

   Heat butter in a frying-pan without browning.

2. 2

   Carefully break eggs into the pan with salt and pepper, cooking slowly for three minutes.

3. 3

   Slide eggs into a hot dish.

4. 4

   In the same pan, heat more butter until brown, adding vinegar.

As published

This recipe was extracted from The thorough good cook (1895) by George Augustus Sala, page 210. The excerpt below is the record exactly as published.

Eggs with Black Butter. Put one ounce of butter in a frying-pan on the fire or the gas stove ; let it heat well, but not become too brown ; break carefully into a dish six very fresh eggs ; slide carefully into the pan, with a pinch of salt and half a pinch of white pepper ; cook slowly for three minutes. Slide the eggs EGGS. 393 into a hot Hat dish ; deal with them gently, without turning them over or breaking them. Then put two more ounces of butter into the same pan ; place it on the fire or gas- stove, and let the butter get a good rich, Vandyke brown colour for three minutes, dropping in two teaspoonfuls of tarragon vmeo^ar

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