Eggs with Mushrooms

Ingredients

• twelve button mushrooms
• two onions
• six eggs
• a tablespoon butter
• seasoning of pepper and salt
• a half pint good gravy
• three tablespoons butter
• a half cup milk or cream

Method

1. 1

   Slice, fry, and drain mushrooms and onions.

2. 2

   Boil eggs hard and slice them.

3. 3

   Add butter and seasoning to the mushrooms and onions, simmer in gravy, and add sliced yolks last.

4. 4

   Alternatively, fry diced mushrooms, beat eggs with seasoning and milk, and stir until thick and creamy.

As published

This recipe was extracted from The new practical housekeeping (1890) by Estelle Woods Wilcox, page 175. The excerpt below is the record exactly as published.

Eggs with Mushrooms. — Slice, fry, and drain twelve button mushrooms and two onions ; boil six eggs hard, and slice them, whites and yolks separately, add a tablespoon butter and seasoning of pepper and salt, and simmer the whole in a half pint good gravy. Put m the sliced yolks last, and let them remain a minute only. Serve very hot, and garnish with thin rings of some of the white of the eggs: Or cut two mushrooms into dice and fry for one minute in a tablespoon butter ; beat six eggs, a little salt, pepper and a half cup milk or cream together and put in sauce-pan ; add the mush- rooms and three tablespoons butter

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