Potatoes en Surprise
From Standard Paper-Bag Cookery, 1912
Cut a thin slice from the bottom if necessary to keep them upright.
Presented as published in 1912. Historical recipes may not meet modern food-safety standards. Cook from the modern interpretation below, not the original instructions.
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This recipe was extracted from Standard Paper-Bag Cookery (1912) by Emma Paddock Telford, page 43. The excerpt below is the record exactly as published.
Potatoes en Surprise. — Choose potatoes of smooth shape, not too large and of even size. Scrape out from STANDARD PAPER BAG COOKERY 9? the top of each a space large enough to hold the yolk of an egg. Salt and pepper the nest, drop in a tiny bit of butter, then the egg yolk, follow with a thin slice of bacon
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