Scotch Woodcock

Ingredients

• the yolks of four eggs
• half a pint of cream
• some bread
• some chopped anchovies
• butter

Method

1. 1

   Toast and butter some bread on both sides, and spread on this some chopped anchovies.

2. 2

   Beat up the yolks of four eggs with half a pint of cream, and thicken this for a few moments in your chafing-dish, without letting it come to a boil.

3. 3

   Arrange your small pieces of toast into a little pyramid and pour this over it.

Nutrition per serving

As published

This recipe was extracted from The bachelor and the chafing dish (1895) by Deshler Welch, page 6. The excerpt below is the record exactly as published.

Scotch woodcock ! ” “ Let’s talk about it instead. Really, I haven’t an appetite. What is it ? ” He gave me a look of despair, and then resign- edly said, between puffs : “ If you want some- thing appetizing, you couldn’t think of anything better.” As for me, I never could get up much interest eating anything when once I had dined. But I’ll challenge any one to withstand Henderson’s seduc- tive ways. I have always thought that if I were a housekeeper I would do all my marketing just be- fore the meal hour. Even a raw carrot or a turnip had charms for me then. Many a time, on such occasions, have I wondered why it was difficult for even the most blase housekeeper to resist the tempta- tion of a fine-looking head of cabbage. My Scotch Friend. 21 My friend was certainly a gourmand. He never seemed to suffer the pangs of indigestion. No matter how sumptuously he had eaten he would enter into the most happy kind of a discussion con- cerning why a well-regulated larder ought to be a housewife’s throne. “ And yet,” he would say, “ I never saw a woman take a real heart interest in her kitchen, as I would in my ship’s galley. The average cook in a private house wouldn’t be tol- erated in a man’s systematic domain. Now, look at Richard, my steward ! Why, he has a little box of a place — you could hardly turn around in it! Yet what of that dinner I gave aboard the other night to two and twelve club fellows ? Didn’t we have a dozen courses ? If you’d looked into that galley an hour after, there wouldn’t have been a sign of it ! Ten to one Richard would have been found reading ‘ The Wreck of the Grosvenor ! ’ ” “The fact of it is,” my friend went on, “men cook to please themselves and women cook to please others. After all, I think women prefer tea and toast. Now let me tell you how to make a Scotch woodcock : First toast and butter some bread on both sides, and spread on this some chopped anchovies. Beat up the yolks of four eggs with half a pint of cream

Cook this with the app: pantry check, scaling, and the assistant.