Old Maryland Filling

Ingredients

• stale bread
• butter
• 2 eggs
• salt
• pepper
• celery
• parsley
• a dash of onion

Method

1. 1

   Cut stale bread into 1-inch squares and toast in hot butter until light brown.

2. 2

   Scald the toasted bread with boiling water, add eggs and butter, and season with salt, pepper, celery, parsley, and onion.

As published

This recipe was extracted from Colonial recipes, from old Virginia and Maryland manors (1907) by Maude A. Bomberger, page 23. The excerpt below is the record exactly as published.

old Maryland Filling (the same that you use to fill fowls with), then stick the ham full of cloves, sprinkle with black pepper, bread crumbs, and brown sugar, and put it in the oven to bake a nice brown. This ham was used for dinner on Easter Sunday in Colonial times. OLD MARYLAND FILLING (IV eld on) Cut stale bread in i inch squares and put it into a skillet in butter that has been made 94 Wei don already very hot. Stir all the time and toast to a nice light brown. Then put the bread into a bowl and scald with boiling water, using as much water as the bread will absorb with- out making the bread " soft." Then add 2 eggs, and butter the size of an egg. Season with salt, pepper, celery, cut up; also parsley and a dash of onion

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