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CIIL— Egg Patties

From A Lenten cookery book (1876).

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A historical recipe

A Lenten cookery book, by Lear, Henrietta Louisa, formerly Farrer (1876).

United Kingdom

Known as a British recipe, with similar versions prepared across other nations.

From an old book: a historical recipe, not current advice. Its methods, additives and storage may be unsafe by today's standards.

Ingredients 1 ingredient

  1. a spoonful of butter

Cook safely

Keep children and pets away from the hob and the oven, and keep oven gloves and a lid within reach.

  • Hot oil. Never put water on an oil fire: turn off the heat and cover the pan with a lid or a damp tea towel. Pat food dry before it goes into hot oil, and lower it in gently, away from you.
  • Oven and hot trays. Use dry oven gloves for trays and dishes: a hot tray looks just like a cold one. Open the oven door away from your face and let the first rush of heat out.
  • Sharp knives. Cut on a board that doesn't slip (a damp cloth under it helps), and curl the fingers of the hand that holds the food.

Method

  1. Make your usual patty paste, and shape.
  2. Mix a spoonful of butter, one of chopped spring onions, one of fried bread crumbs, some chopped parsley, salt and pepper, and put a layer in the bottom of each patty.
  3. Break an egg carefully into each ;
  4. put a very little Chili vinegar and parsley on the top of each egg, and cook gently in the oven ;
  5. a slow fire will do best.

Plating

Cookware for this recipe

  • Frying pan
  • Chef's knife
  • Cutting board
Source http://creativecommons.org/publicdomain/mark/1.0/
Credit

From A Lenten cookery book (1876), printed page 40, digitised by the Internet Archive: https://archive.org/details/ALentenCookeryBook

What was changed: Read by machine from the book's scanned text into ingredients and method. The title's capitals were tidied; spelling and scanning errors are left as they are.