Minced Meat with Poached Eggs

Ingredients

• 1 teaspoon chopped parsley
• A pinch of salt
• pepper
• red pepper
• Melt the butter
• the onion
• the minced meat

Method

1. 1

   Mix the minced meat, salt, pepper, red pepper, and parsley if available.

2. 2

   Melt the butter in a small frying pan.

3. 3

   When it begins to sing, add the onion, and when it begins to turn brown, add the minced meat and toss quickly on the fire till the fat is all absorbed.

4. 4

   Serve with poached eggs, mashed yam, or plain macaroni.

As published

This recipe was extracted from Practical West African cookery (1910) by S. Leith-Ross, page 43. The excerpt below is the record exactly as published.

A pinch of salt, pepper and red pepper. 1. Mix the minced meat, salt, pepper, red pepper, (and parsley if available.) FOWLS. 91 2. Melt the butter in the small frying pan. When it begins to sing, throw in the onion, and when it begins to turn brown add the minced meat and toss quickly on the fire till the fat is all absorbed. Serve with poached eggs, or mashed yam or plain macaroni. Notes. The same mince can be made with one-and-a- half tablespoons stock, milk or weak Lemco, or mixed with any remains of tomato, brown or white sauce. Mix the sauce with the mince after it has absorbed the fat of the frying pan, and let them heat up together. Cooked mutton or beef can be minced in exactly the same way. Chicken 2 fowls. 1 tablespoon flour. 1 teaspoon salt. 1 teaspoon pepper. 1 hard-boiled egg. 2 sausages or 1 small tin potted meat. 1 large onion. Pie. (II). pints water. 1 teaspoon butter or lard. Pie crust (see index). 2£ sheets of gelatine. $ teaspoon Lemco. (A. teaspoon chopped parsley,

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