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Two Recipes for Tomatoes and Eggs

A historical recipe from The Belgian Cookbook, by Luck, Brian, Mrs. (1915).

A historical recipe

The Belgian Cookbook, by Luck, Brian, Mrs. (1915). Project Gutenberg eBook #7223.

From an old book: a historical recipe, not current advice. Its methods, additives and storage may be unsafe by today's standards. Its words name: raw egg. Check current food-safety guidance before following this.

Belgium. Associated with Belgium by the book is about Belgian cookery (Cooking, Belgian); the recipe itself names no place (confidence 0.4). "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.

Source Public domain in the USA
Credit

From The Belgian Cookbook, by Luck, Brian, Mrs. (1915). Digitised by Project Gutenberg, eBook #7223 (https://www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/7223). 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.

  • Raw egg. Raw or lightly cooked egg carries a risk, above all for children, older people, anyone pregnant or unwell.

Method

  1. Take some good tomatoes, but not too ripe.
  2. Cut them down from top to bottom, take out the pulp, and in each half tomato put half a hard-boiled egg.
  3. Arrange them on a dish, and pour round them a good mayonnaise, to which you have added some chopped parsley.
  4. Take some tomatoes not too ripe, and cut them in half horizontally.
  5. Take out the pulp, so that you have two half-cases from each tomato.
  6. Break an egg into each tomato and sprinkle it well with cheese.
  7. Place them all in the oven, till the eggs are set, and decorate with sprigs of parsley.
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