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Eggs Jefferson

A historical recipe from Many Ways for Cooking Eggs, by S. T. Rorer.

A historical recipe

Many Ways for Cooking Eggs, by S. T. Rorer. Project Gutenberg eBook #6429.

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

Source and licence

From Many Ways for Cooking Eggs, by S. T. Rorer. Digitised by Project Gutenberg, eBook #6429 (https://www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/6429). Public domain in the USA; its status may differ elsewhere.

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What was changed: As printed, from the book's text; Project Gutenberg's header and licence removed. Ingredient lines were read out of the text by a program. A historical recipe, not current advice.

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Ingredients

Method

  1. Select the desired number of good-sized tomatoes, allowing one to each person.
  2. Cut off the blossom end, scoop out the seeds, stand the tomatoes in a baking pan in the oven until they are partly cooked.
  3. Put a half teaspoonful of butter and a dusting of salt and pepper into the bottom of each, and break in one egg.
  4. Put these back in the oven until the eggs are "set." Have ready a round of toasted bread for each tomato, stand the tomato in the center of the bread, fill the bottom of the dish with cream sauce, and send to the table.