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Jewish Egg Bread

A historical recipe from 365 Foreign Dishes A Foreign Dish for Every Day in the Year, by Anonymous (1908).

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A historical recipe

365 Foreign Dishes A Foreign Dish for Every Day in the Year, by Anonymous (1908). Project Gutenberg eBook #10011.

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 pinch of sugar

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.

Method

  1. Soak some matzoths in milk for a few minutes;
  2. then dip them into seasoned beaten eggs.
  3. Add a pinch of sugar and let them fry in hot rendered butter until a golden brown.
  4. Sprinkle with pulverized sugar and cinnamon and serve hot with coffee.

Plating

Cookware for this recipe

  • Frying pan
Source Public domain in the USA
Credit

From 365 Foreign Dishes A Foreign Dish for Every Day in the Year, by Anonymous (1908). Digitised by Project Gutenberg, eBook #10011 (https://www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/10011). Public domain in the USA; its status may differ elsewhere.

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.