Stuffed Egg with Smoked Salmon a la Zomza

Ingredients

• Two eggs
• Half pound smoked salmon
• Three tablespoons of butter
• Cayenne pepper
• pinch of mustard
• Eight slices of bread

Method

1. 1

   Put the eggs in hot water and boil for twelve minutes.

2. 2

   Put them in cold water until cold.

3. 3

   Remove the shell.

4. 4

   Cut the eggs in halves lengthwise.

5. 5

   Carefully scoop out the yolks as not to break the whites.

6. 6

   Put the whites back into cold water until ready to use.

7. 7

   Butter the slices of bread.

8. 8

   Slice the salmon very thin.

9. 9

   Cover the slices of bread with the salmon.

10. 10

    Cut out with a large round biscuit cutter.

11. 11

    Cut strips of salmon about one quarter of an inch in width for decoration.

12. 12

    The rest of the salmon chop very fine.

13. 13

    Stir the butter to a cream.

14. 14

    Leave part of the butter for decoration.

15. 15

    Mix the rest of the salmon to the rest of the butter, mustard and pepper.

16. 16

    Stuff the eggs.

17. 17

    Put one half of the eggs with the stuffed side down on each sandwich.

18. 18

    Decorate them with a strip of the salmon.

19. 19

    Glace with aspic.

20. 20

    Decorate with the stirred butter through a small paper tube in checkers on top of the salmon, with a border of stirred butter and truffle all around.

21. 21

    Arrange on a platter in form of a ring.

22. 22

    Decorate with the yolks that have been mixed with the butter and stirred to a smooth paste.

23. 23

    Put through a fancy tube.

24. 24

    Put a row between the eggs going on a bias toward the platter.

25. 25

    On the end of each row put a round piece of truffle.

26. 26

    Garnish with parsley.

As published

This recipe was extracted from Mrs. Ericsson Hammond's salad appetizer cook book... (1924) by Maria Matilda Ericsson Hammond, page 4. The excerpt below is the record exactly as published.

Stuffed Egg with Smoked Salmon a la Zomza CEufs farcis au Saumon fume a la Zomza For Eight Persons Two eggs. Half pound smoked salmon. Three tablespoons of butter. Cayenne pepper, pinch of mustard. Eight slices of bread

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