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A historical recipe from Salads, Sandwiches and Chafing-Dish Dainties With Fifty Illustrations of Original Dishes, by Janet McKenzie Hill (1899).

A historical recipe

Salads, Sandwiches and Chafing-Dish Dainties With Fifty Illustrations of Original Dishes, by Janet McKenzie Hill (1899). Project Gutenberg eBook #19077.

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

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From Salads, Sandwiches and Chafing-Dish Dainties With Fifty Illustrations of Original Dishes, by Janet McKenzie Hill (1899). Digitised by Project Gutenberg, eBook #19077 (https://www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/19077). Public domain in the USA; its status may differ elsewhere.

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United Kingdom. Associated with United Kingdom by a demonym leading its title: English (confidence 0.55). "Associated with" means only that the evidence named here links this recipe to that place. A recipe isn't labelled as representing an entire country because a source associates it with one, and regional origins are kept where the source gives them.

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Ingredients

Method

  1. 1 cup of milk.
  2. 1 egg.
  3. 1 tablespoonful of butter.
  4. 1 cup of fine bread crumbs from the centre of a stale loaf.
  5. 3/4 to 1 whole cup of cheese.
  6. Method.--Melt the butter, add the cheese, and stir while melting;
  7. then add the bread crumbs, which have been soaked in the milk and the egg lightly beaten.