Matzoun with Eggs

Ingredients

• I cup matzoun
• 4 eggs
• 4 to 5 bulbs garlic, pressed
• i tablespoon butter
• Salt and pepper to taste

Method

1. 1

   Mix the juice of the garlic with the matzoun.

2. 2

   Break the eggs into boiling hot water and let boil for five or six minutes.

3. 3

   Arrange the eggs over the matzoun, pour over hot butter, season to taste, and serve at once.

As published

This recipe was extracted from Foods of the foreign-born in relation to health (1922) by Bertha M. Wood, page 30. The excerpt below is the record exactly as published.

Salt and pepper to taste Clean and trim the beans, splitting them lengthwise; crush with some salt and, after washing, arrange them in a suitable vessel. Slice over this the onions and the green pepper. Also add the juice of the tomatoes. Sea- son to taste, and after pouring in the olive oil, boil on a moderate fire for ten to fifteen minutes, when one-half of plain water should be added, and then left over a slow fire to simmer until done. (Serve hot or cold.) Khiyar Dolma (Stuffed Cucumbers) Pare eight to ten cucumbers of medium size, dig out their seedy parts with the aid of a narrow and pointed knife, stuff with the Dolma mixture, and after piercing each one with a fork, arrange in a suitable pan, side by side. Add two or three ripe tomatoes, cut into small pieces (or three to four tablespoons of canned tomatoes), and then pour over one cup or more of broth, or plain water. Cook either on a slow fire or in a moderately hot oven. Dressing (Terbish), made of one beaten egg and the juice of one lemon mixed, may be added to the whole, after blending the mixture first with part of the Dolma Gravy. (Serve hot.) Because of the large amount of rice and wheat used in the preparation of the Near East foods, it is difficult to give a diet list for a diabetic patient. In prescribing low carbohydrate vegetables cooked in olive oil, and lamb and chicken cooked on skewers, one is able to feel sure no 76 FOODS OF THE FOREIGN-BORN rice or wheat is used. It is frequently found that the amount of fat must be reduced. Bread is usually limited to two of their loaves a day. The tuberculosis patient needs milk added to the diet instead of black coffee. Tzouvatzoghy the Armenian egg milk toast, is very good made with: 6 to 8 slices bread, dry 3 or 4 eggs (or toasted) Butter in quantity required I cup milk for frying Sugar to taste Dampen the dry bread with the milk, and after dipping into the beaten eggs, fry in smoking hot butter on both sides. Some prefer only eggs and omit the milk; others use the milk with the beaten eggs mixed; the result of both methods being similar. (Serve with sugar or syrup if desired.) Matzoun is always popular, and may be served with eggs in the following combination : I cup matzoun 4 eggs 4 to 5 bulbs garlic, pressed i tablespoon butter

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