Poached Eggs

Ingredients

• each egg
• salted boiling water

Method

1. 1

   Have salted boiling water in the frying-pan.

2. 2

   Drop each egg in separately.

3. 3

   When the white is set, baste.

4. 4

   With a skimmer, remove each egg and serve on buttered toast.

Nutrition per serving

As published

This recipe was extracted from The cooking garden (1885) by Emily Huntington, page 13. The excerpt below is the record exactly as published.

Poached Eggs, and Quaker Omelet. RECEIPTS. SCRAMBLED EGGS. Three eggs, one- half cup of milk, one teaspoonful of butter and flour each, salt-spoonful of salt. Heat and thicken the milk, add butter and salt, then stir in the eggs. Turn into a hot dish. BAKED OMELET. One scant pint of milk, two eggs, one-half table-spoonful of butter and flour each, one-half teaspoonful of salt. Let the milk come to a boil. Mix butter and flour together ; stir it into the milk. Let it cool five minutes, stirring constantly. Put it where it will cool. When cool, add the salt and eggs (eggs beaten separately) ; pour into a buttered dish. Bake twenty minutes in a quick oven. Serve at once. POACHED EGGS. Have salted boiling water

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