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Holland Eggs

From The new practical housekeeping, 1890

Serves 1

Use roe from fish for added flavor.

Presented as published in 1890. Historical recipes may not meet modern food-safety standards. Cook from the modern interpretation below, not the original instructions.

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As published

This recipe was extracted from The new practical housekeeping (1890) by Estelle Woods Wilcox, page 170. The excerpt below is the record exactly as published.

Holland Eggs. — Cook seven eggs hard and cut in long slices ; wash and clean a large herring, cut in small pieces ; take the roe from a carp or other fish and fry in butter ; butter a baking dish, put in the boiled eggs and pour over them five tablespoons tream ; on each egg put a piece of nerring and some of the roe, and thus fill up the dish with alternate layers ; mix some chopped parsley

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