Foods and Household Management: A Textbook of the Household ArtsKinne, Helen
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Foods and Household Management: A Textbook of the Household Arts
Kinne, Helen
Cooking; Food; Home economics
=3. Jellied or coddled eggs.=——See that the shells are whole and
clean. If the eggs are just taken from the refrigerator, lay them in
warm water a few minutes. Make ready a double boiler, the lower part
half full of boiling water. Put the required number of eggs into the
inner boiler, cover with water that has just stopped boiling, put on
the boiler cover, and stand the boiler where the water below will no
longer boil. The eggs will be done in from six to eight minutes.
Having performed the preceding experiment, you should be able to
invent another way of accomplishing this result.
=4. Boiled eggs.=
Put one egg at a time from a tablespoon into boiling water. Allow
the water to boil for three or four minutes, depending upon the
preference of those served. Remove the eggs, and serve at once.
The _hard-boiled egg_ should remain in the boiling water half an
hour.
Bearing in mind the fact that hard-boiled eggs must be chopped or
sliced, cannot you invent a way of using them in a luncheon dish?
=5. Poached eggs.=——Make ready a frying pan by setting muffin rings
in it, and filling it about half full of gently simmering water, with
a teaspoonful of salt dissolved in it. Break the eggs one at a time
into a saucer, and slip each egg carefully into a muffin ring. See
that the pan stands where the water is just below the boiling point,
for rapidly bubbling water breaks the eggs. When the white begins to
set, pour the hot water gently over the tops of the eggs from a
spoon. Cook until the white is firm. Slip a griddle cake turner under
the egg, lift it gently, and place it upon a piece of buttered toast
which you have ready on a hot plate, or platter, and remove the ring.
An easier method resembling the poached egg is to break the egg
raw into a small buttered cup or “patty,” standing the cups in a
pan of water just below the boiling point, the pan being on the
top of the stove or in the oven. Each egg should have a
sprinkling of salt, and may have a bit of butter, and a shake of
pepper. Cover the pan. This process is longer than the other, and
the eggs must be watched to see when the process is complete.
=6. Scrambled eggs.=
As the name denotes, this is a process needing a quick motion.
Allow an egg to each person. Have ready a frying pan heated, a
broad bladed knife, and a tablespoonful of butter, or butter
substitute, ready to melt in the pan.
(1) Melt the butter, break the eggs into the pan, without beating
them, and begin to scrape them from the bottom of the pan with the
knife, as fast as you can move your hand. This is an old-time
method, and gives a mixture of white and yellow color. Stop the
process when the eggs are softer than you wish them for serving,
as they will stiffen after they are removed from the fire.
Sprinkle in salt, before you give the last scramble, and serve at
once.
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