Nuns' Toast

Ingredients

• four or five hard-boiled eggs
• a piece of butter half the size of an egg
• a teaspoonful of flour
• a cupful of milk
• seasoned to taste with pepper
• seasoned to taste with salt

Method

1. 1

   Cut the hard-boiled eggs into slices.

2. 2

   In a saucepan, melt the butter and add the chopped onion, cooking until soft.

3. 3

   Stir in the flour, then add the milk and stir until smooth.

4. 4

   Add the egg slices and heat through.

5. 5

   Pour over hot buttered toast.

Nutrition per serving

As published

This recipe was extracted from Original White House Cookbook (1887) by Hugo Ziemann, F. L. Gillette, Hugo Zimmerman, mrs gillette, page 176. The excerpt below is the record exactly as published.

NUNS’ TOAST. Cut four or five hard-boiled eggs into slices. Put a piece of butter half the size of an egg into a saucepan and when it begins to bubble add a 264 BREAD— TOAST. finely chopped onion. Let the onion cook a little without taking color then stir in a teaspoonful of flour. Add a cupful of milk and stir until it becomes smooth; then put in the slices of eggs and let them get hot. Pour over neatly trimmed slices of hot buttered toast. The sauce must be sea- soned to taste with peppe

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