Many Ways for Cooking Eggs | Page 6

a quart of water, must stand five minutes.
BIRDS' NESTS
Separate the eggs, allowing one to each person. Beat the whites to a stiff froth. Heap them into individual dishes, make a nest, or hole, in the center. Drop into this a whole yolk. Stand the dish in a pan of water, cover, and cook in the oven about two or three minutes. Dust lightly with salt and pepper, put a tiny bit of butter in the center of each, and send at once to the table. This is one of the most sightly of all egg dishes.
EGGS EN PANADE
2 eggs 6 slices of bread 1/2 cupful of milk or cream 4 tablespoonfuls of olive oil 1 tablespoonful of chopped parsley 1/2 teaspoonful of salt 1 saltspoonful of pepper
Trim the crusts from the bread. Beat the eggs until well mixed, but not light, then add the milk or cream, salt and pepper. Put the oil in a shallow frying pan, dip the slices of bread in the beaten egg and drop them into the hot oil; when brown on one side, turn and brown the other. Dish on a hot platter, dust with the chopped parsley and send at once to the table.
EGG PUDDING
6 eggs 6 slices of bread 1 tablespoonful of chopped parsley 2 tablespoonfuls of chopped chives 2 tablespoonfuls of butter 1 tablespoonful of flour 1/2 pint of milk 1/2 teaspoonful of salt 1 saltspoonful of white pepper
Break the eggs in a bowl, add all the seasoning. Rub the butter and flour together, add the milk, stir until boiling, and then add this to the eggs; beat together until thoroughly mixed. Crumb the bread, removing the crusts; stir this in at last. Turn into a buttered baking dish, cover with grated cheese, and bake in the oven until thoroughly "set" and a nice brown. It makes an exceedingly good, easily digested luncheon or supper dish for children.
EGGS A LA BONNE FEMME
1 Spanish or 2 Bermuda onions 2 level tablespoonfuls of butter 2 level tablespoonfuls of flour 1/2 pint of milk 6 eggs 1 teaspoonful of salt 1 saltspoonful of pepper 1/2 saltspoonful of grated nutmeg
Separate the whites and yolks of the eggs. Put the butter into a saucepan, add the onions, cut into very thin slices; shake until the onions are soft, but not brown, then dust over the flour, mix, and add the milk, salt, pepper and nutmeg. Stir carefully until this reaches boiling point, then stand it on the back part of the stove where it will keep hot for at least ten minutes. Beat the yolks of the eggs until very creamy, then stir them into the sauce, take from the fire, and fold in the well-beaten whites of the eggs. Turn into a baking dish or casserole and bake in a hot oven fifteen minutes; serve at once.
TO POACH EGGS
Use a shallow frying pan partly filled with boiling water. The eggs must be perfectly fresh. The white of an egg is held in a membrane which seems to lose its tenacity after the egg is three days old. Such an egg, when dropped into boiling water, spreads out; that is, it does not retain its shape. When ready to poach eggs, take the required number to the stove. The water must be boiling hot, but not actually bubbling. Break an egg into a saucer, slide it quickly into the water, and then another and another. Pull the pan to the side of the stove, where the water cannot possibly boil. With a tablespoon, baste the water over the yolks of the eggs, if they happen to be exposed. They must be entirely covered with a thin veil of the white. Have ready the desired quantity of toast on a heated platter, lift each egg with a slice or skimmer, trim off the ragged edges and slide them at once on the toast. Dust with salt and pepper, baste with melted butter, and send to the table.
EGGS MIRABEAU
Cut a sufficient number of rounds of bread, toast them carefully and cover them with _pate de foie gras_, put on top of each a poached egg, pour over sauce Perigueux, and send to the table.
EGGS NORWEGIAN
Cover rounds of toasted bread first with butter and then with anchovy paste, put on top of each a poached egg, pour over anchovy sauce, and send at once to the table.
EGGS PRESCOURT
Toast slices of bread, put thin slices of chicken on each, on top of this a poached egg, cover with sauce Bernaise, and serve at once.
EGGS COURTLAND
Mince sufficient cold chicken to make a half cupful. Make a half pint of cream sauce, add the minced chicken, a half teaspoonful of salt and a dash of red pepper. Toast a sufficient quantity of bread, put it on a heated platter, pour over a