This section is from the book "The Cook County Cook Book", by The Associated College Women Workers. See also: Larousse Gastronomique.
Cut 6 hard-boiled eggs in half lengthwise; remove yolk and rub smooth with 1/4 lb. of ham, 1/4 onion, chopped fine, 1/4 teaspoon prepared mustard, 1 teaspoon salt and a little red pepper. Refill the whites with the mixture and serve cold on lettuce leaves with salad dressing. - Mabel Sturtevant, 105 S. Dearborn St., Chicago, 111.
Break 6 eggs into a bowl, beat well; add 1 teaspoon salt, 1/8 teaspoon pepper, 1 teaspoon of chopped parsley; 1/4 teaspoon onion juice and heat 1 minute. Add 1 1/2 cups of rich milk and stir well, butter timbale moulds, and pour in the mixture. Place in a deep pan, and pour in enough hot water to reach almost to the top of mould. Place in a moderate oven, and cook about 15 minutes. Turn out on a warm dish, put a sprig of parsley on each timbale and serve with tomato or cream sauce. - Mrs. G. D. Faulkner. Des Plaines, 111.
Put a lump of butter in a frying-pan; when this is hot stir in 4 or 5 well beaten eggs. Season with pepper, salt and a little parsley, stir and toss for 3 minutes. Have ready buttered toast, cut with a cake cutter after toasting, spread thickly with minced tongue, chicken or haim, heap the stirred eggs on these mounds, and set in a hot dish garnished with parsley and pickled beets. - Mrs. Conklin, 914 N. 5th Ave., Maywood, 111.
Prepare scrambled eggs and pour over 6 slices of toasted bread. Put a tablespoon tomato puree on each piece and in the center of puree 1/2 tablespoon chickens' livers, sauted in bacon fat. - Mrs. D. C. Miller, Des Plaines, 111.
Spread on rounds of moistened, or buttered toast a white sauce containing the chopped whites of eggs and sift the yolks over the top. Mix chopped chicken, ham, or mushrooms into the sauce, if convenient. - Mrs. Chas. C. Clark, Wheeling, 111.
Grate 6 ears of corn, add to it 1/2 cup flour, mix; add 1/2 cup milk and the yolks of 2 eggs; fold in the well beaten whites and add salt and pepper. Drop by spoonfuls in a little fat in a saucepan. Brown on both sides. They should be about the size of a large coffee cup. Drain and arrange them on a platter-Put on top of each one a poached egg. Cover with white sauce, and garnish the edge of the dish with nicely seasoned green peas. This dish gives a complete lunch. - Mrs. C. Maybee, Mayfair, 111.
In countries where wood fire is constantly used the cottager half buries his eggs in an upright position in hot ashes, upon the hearth, and when a clear drop oozes on the top of the shell the eggs are ready to serve - Mabel Sturtevant, 105 S. Dearborn St., Chicago, 111.
 
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