Lyonnaise Eggs

Lyonnaise Eggs

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Instructions

  • Put one half tablespoon fill butter in sauce pan, add one teaspoonful onion juice, cook slowly live minutes.
  • Add one tablespoonful flour and, when well mixed, add one and one half cupfuls milk, stir till it thickens, season with salt and pepper, pour the sauce in a bakedish, and break six eggs onto the sauce.
  • Sprinkle quite thickly with bread crumbs, put bits of butter over all, and set in the oven for three or four minutes.
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Course; Eggs
Cuisine; European / French
Diets; Vegetarian

Hard Boiled Eggs

Hard Boiled Eggs

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Instructions

  • The eggs should be placed in boiling water, then set where they will simmer, rather than boil, and be left for fifteen minutes; the yolks will be dry and fine.
  • To make them peel easily slip at once into cold water on removing from the fire.
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Course; Eggs
Diets; Vegetarian

Shirred Eggs

Shirred Eggs

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Instructions

  • Set a saucer on the stove and put in it a teaspoonful of butter, when hot break two eggs into the dish, let cook until they bubble, and begin to set.
  • Serve in the dish in which they are cooked, slipping the saucer on to a small plate.
  • Serve at once.
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Course; Eggs
Diets; Vegetarian

Scrambled Eggs

Scrambled Eggs

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Instructions

  • Break the eggs into a bowl and beat moderately light; add cream in proportion of one tablespoonful to every two eggs; season to taste.
  • Have one tablespoonful of butter melted in hot frying pan and pour into the mixture.
  • Stir until cooked solid, turn on hot platter and serve at once with toast.
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Course; Eggs
Diets; Vegetarian

Baked Eggs

Baked Eggs

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Instructions

  • Butter gem pans and line with fine, buttered, bread crumbs.
  • Break one egg carefully into each pan, season with bits of pepper, salt and butter, cover lightly with buttered bread crumbs, and bake in oven until delicate brown.
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Course; Eggs
Diets; Vegetarian

Gold Curried Eggs

Gold Curried Eggs

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Instructions

  • Boil half a dozen eggs hard and let them got cold.
  • Fry in butter two large onions cut in thin slices, and let them get quite brown, season these with pepper and salt, and add a pint of boiling water; when the onions have stewed for a little while, put in a cupful of milk thickened with arrowroot, or flour, and flavor with curry powder, let it simmer, then put in the eggs cut in halves, making them hot, but do not let them boil.
  • The amount of curry powder used is a matter of taste; garnish the dish with boiled rice, and serve very hot.
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Course; Eggs
Diets; Vegetarian

Curried Eggs

Curried Eggs

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Instructions

  • Put into saucepan two tablespoonfuls of butter, add one half teaspoonful onion juice; cook slowly till the onion begins to color; then add one tablespoonful flour and one teaspoonful curry powder; when perfectly smooth add three fourths of a cupful of clear stock and one half cupful of cream; cook for five minutes, stirring constantly; season with salt and pepper.
  • Cut six hard boiled eggs into halves lengthwise; strain the sar.
  • ee over them and let stand on the stove a few minutes till thoroughly heated.
  • Serve on thin squares of toast.
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Course; Eggs
Diets; Vegetarian

Hot Spicy Tea With Chillies

Hot Spicy Tea With Chillies

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Ingredients

Instructions

  • Place the spices and the measurement water in a medium saucepan and bring to the boil.
  • Reduce the heat and cook gently for 15 minutes.
  • Stir in the honey and simmer for a further 4 minutes.
  • Strain the tea into 4 heatproof glasses, add 1 of the chillies to each and serve with a slice of lemon to squeeze over.

Notes & Wine Advice

For quick ginger & chilli tea,

place 4 thick slices of peeled fresh root ginger, 4 dried red chillies and 400 ml boiling water in a saucepan and simmer for 8–10 minutes. Strain the tea into 4 heatproof glasses, add 1 of the chillies to each and sweeten with honey to taste.
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Course; Hot drinks
Cuisine; Arabic

Mint Tea With Lemon Verbena

Mint Tea With Lemon Verbena

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Instructions

  • Place the green tea and sugar lumps in a teapot.
  • Pour over a little boiling water and leave to steep for 5 minutes.
  • Stuff the mint and lemon verbena leaves into the pot, packing them in as tightly as you can.
  • Add more sugar lumps to taste – the sugar enhances the flavour of the mint – and top up the pot with boiling water.
  • Place the teapot over a pan of boiling water or over a low heat on the hob, or simply cover with a tea cosy.
  • Leave the tea to brew for 10 minutes.
  • Place 4 tea glasses on a tray.
  • Pour some of the tea into a glass, then tip it back into the pot.
  • Hold the pot high above the glasses and pour slowly so that bubbles form on top of the tea.
  • Serve immediately.

Notes & Wine Advice

For quick peppermint tea,

trim several stems of peppermint to the size of your tea glasses. Place 1,5 leafy stems into each of 4 glasses with 1,5 sugar cubes or 1½ teaspoons runny honey to taste. Fill each glass with boiling water, cover with a clean tea towel and leave to steep for 3 minutes. Serve hot.
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Course; Hot drinks
Cuisine; Arabic

Moroccan Coffee With Cardamom

Moroccan Coffee With Cardamom

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Ingredients

Instructions

  • Place the measurement water and cardamom pods in a small saucepan and carefully spoon the coffee and sugar on top.
  • Gently stir the sugar and coffee into the surface of the water, making sure you don’t touch the bottom of the pan with the spoon.
  • Bring to just below boiling point over a medium heat, gradually drawing in the outer edges of the coffee into the middle to create a froth.
  • Just as the coffee is about to bubble, spoon some of the froth into 4 coffee cups and pour in the coffee.
  • Leave to stand for 1 minute before drinking to let the coffee grains settle at the bottom of the cups.

Notes & Wine Advice

For milky cinnamon coffee,

place 2 tablespoons finely ground coffee, 4 cinnamon sticks and 400 ml water in a saucepan and bring to the boil, stirring continuously, then turn off the heat and leave to steep for 10 minutes. Strain the coffee, reserving the cinnamon sticks. Pour back into the pan and heat gently to just below boiling point. Put 250 g condensed milk into a separate pan and heat gently to just below boiling point. Place the reserved cinnamon sticks into 4 cups, mugs or heatproof glasses. Pour in the coffee to just over halfway, then pour in the condensed milk. Dust the tops with ground cinnamon and serve immediately.
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Course; Hot drinks
Cuisine; Arabic / Moroccan