Fast-Day Cookery; or, Meals without MeatJohnson, Grace
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Fast-Day Cookery; or, Meals without Meat
Johnson, Grace
Cooking (Fish); Lenten menus; Vegetarian cooking
Well grease a pie dish. Break into it as many eggs as you require,
taking care not to break the yolks. Sprinkle over the top a light layer
of bread crumbs, and pepper and salt to taste. Put some dabs of butter
here and there over it, and bake a nice golden colour. This dish,
though simple, is tasty and satisfying.
3. Fricasseed Eggs.
Have ready some hard-boiled eggs. Shell them, and cut them in quarters.
Place them in a dish neatly. Now throw over them a white butter sauce,
as per sauce recipe No. 1. Sprinkle over some Nepaul pepper and salt to
taste. These should be eaten with toast sent to table separately.
4. Dry Egg Currie.
Chop four hard-boiled eggs very fine. Put them aside. Chop up one
onion, two beads of garlic, very fine. Fry in three ounces of butter,
with twelve cloves, a nice brown. Then add a tablespoon of best currie
powder. Fry all together a few minutes, and then add the minced eggs.
Stir well, and let all the moisture absorb. Add salt to taste, and a
squeeze of lemon juice. Serve with a separate dish of boiled rice or
kedgree, as per recipe given.
5. White Egg Currie.
Have ready some hard-boiled eggs; shell them and cut them in half. Put
them aside. Chop one onion and two cloves of garlic small, and fry in
three ounces of butter with twenty-four cloves a pale yellow, then add
one dessertspoon of the best currie powder, the milk of a cocoa-nut,
and one small tea-cup of rich thick cream. Let it simmer gently for
about half an hour. Strain it, and then add salt to taste, a squeeze of
lemon, taking great care not to curdle the cream, and lastly, add the
eggs. Warm thoroughly through. Serve with a separate dish of rice.
6. Egg Zeste.
Chop up six hard-boiled eggs small. Mix with them one teaspoon of
chopped onions, one teaspoon of chopped parsley, one bead of garlic,
_very_ fine, Nepaul pepper and salt to taste, the grated rind of a
small lemon, and lastly, the strained juice of the lemon. This is very
nice eaten with salads of any kind, or between bread and butter as a
sandwich.
7. Baked Eggs with Cheese.
Butter a pie dish, sprinkle it well over with grated Parmesan cheese, a
dust of Nepaul pepper and salt. Now break in six eggs, cover over with
grated cheese, a dust of Nepaul pepper and salt, and bake a nice golden
brown.
8. Plain Omelette.
Beat up the yolks of three eggs with two ounces of butter quite smooth.
Add to it pepper and salt to taste, and a tablespoon of milk. Now beat
the whites to a stiff froth, and stir them thoroughly into the mixture.
Put in just a small pat of butter into a thoroughly clean frying-pan.
Pour in your mixture, and let it set and get a bright golden yellow.
Turn over neatly, lay it in a napkin, and garnish with parsley. The
chief secret is a clean pan and a perfectly clear fire, which must not
be too fierce.
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