Scalloped Eggs

Ingredients

• 6 hard cooked eggs
• 1 teaspoonful salt
• 2 cupfuls milk
• 1/4 teaspoonful pepper
• 2 tablespoonfuls flour
• 1/2 cupful bread crumbs
• 2 tablespoonfuls butter
• 1 tablespoonful melted butter

Method

1. 1

   Make a sauce by thickening heated milk with flour mixed with butter.

2. 2

   Add salt and pepper.

3. 3

   Cut hard cooked eggs in thin slices, layer in an oiled baking dish with sauce, and top with bread crumbs mixed with melted butter.

4. 4

   Brown in a hot oven.

Nutrition per serving

Estimated from matched ingredients across 2 servings.

As published

This recipe was extracted from The farm cook & rule book (1923) by Nell Beaubien Nichols, page 56. The excerpt below is the record exactly as published.

2 cupful bread crumbs 1 teaspoonful salt % teaspoonful pepper jelly Soak the bread crumbs in the milk until the milk is absorbed. Add the beaten egg yolks, salt and pepper and fold in the stiffly beaten egg whites. Cook as a plain omelet. Spread with jelly before folding and sprinkle with sugar. Rice Omelet 1 cupful boiled rice 3 eggs 1 cupful milk 1 teaspoonful salt 1 tablespoonful butter % teaspoonful pepper Beat the eggs until light and add to them the warm rice, heated milk, melted butter and the seasonings. Pour in an oiled baking dish and bake in a hot oven, folding over once. Shirred Eggs Break eggs into oiled individual molds or ramekins, sprinkle lightly with salt and pepper and generously with coarse bread crumbs. Place a few dots of butter or a thin slice of bacon on top of every egg. Set the ramekins in a pan of warm water, place in the oven and bake until the eggs are set and the crumbs are delicately browned. Tomato Eggs Follow the directions for making shirred eggs, only place 3 teaspoonfuls of tomato sauce in every ramekin before breaking the egg into it. Scalloped Eggs 6 hard cooked eggs 1 teaspoonful salt 2 cupfuls milk 14 teaspoonful pepper 2 tablespoonfuls flour i/^ cupful bread crumbs 2 tablespoonfuls butter 1 tablespoonful melted butter

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