Eggs with Peas

Ingredients

• a pint of fresh, tender green peas
• four tablespoons olive oil
• four tablespoons water
• pepper, salt and nutmeg
• an egg
• yolks of eight eggs
• whites of four

Method

1. 1

   Put peas in a covered dish with olive oil and water, season, and cook over boiling water.

2. 2

   Make indentations and break an egg into each.

3. 3

   Beat another egg and pour over the top.

4. 4

   Alternatively, mix cold peas with yolks and whites, fry in butter, and serve with mint sauce.

Nutrition per serving

Estimated from matched ingredients across 2 servings.

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.

gs with Peas. — Put a pint of fresh, tender green peas into a covered vegetable dish ; add four tablespoons each olive oil and water, season with pepper, salt and nutmeg, cover closely and place the dish over boiling water until the peas are done ; then make indentations on their surface with a spoon and into each of these break an egg ; beat an egg and pour upon the top ; and when well set, serve it in the dish m which it was dressea. Or boil in salt water, half pint tender green peas ; drain, and when cold, mix with the yolks of eight eggs, and whites of four

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