This section is from the book "The Old And New Cook Book", by Martha Pritchard Stanford. Also available from Amazon: The old and new cook book.
8 slices bacon.
1 cup milk.
1 cup cream.
1 doz. hard boiled eggs.
1 tablespoon butter.
1/2 teaspoon minced parsley.
1/2 tablespoon flour.
1/4 teaspoon cayenne pepper.
Make a sauce by boiling milk, cream, butter, pepper, flour and parsley. Fry bacon and cut the eggs in half. Pour the sauce over the eggs and bacon just before serving.
6 eggs.
2 tablespoons butter.
1/4 teaspoon cayenne pepper.
1/2 teaspoon salt.
1/4 tablespoon vinegar.
Fry eggs. Put the butter in skillet and let it brown, add vinegar, salt and pepper, and pour over eggs.
9 eggs.
1/2 teaspoon cayenne pepper.
1/2 teaspoon grated onion.
1 1/2 pts. tomatoes. 1 tablespoon butter. 1 teaspoon corn starch.
Cook tomatoes with onions, salt and pepper for above. 10 minutes, then add butter, parsley and corn starch and cook 10 minutes longer. Beat eggs lightly, stir them into tomatoes and serve on buttered toast.
8 eggs.
3/4 cup minced ham.
A little black pepper.
2 tablespoons milk. 1 teaspoon flour.
Beat eggs lightly with flour and milk, add the ham and pepper, fry in cakes.
10 hard boiled eggs.
1 cup chopped boiled ham, or 1/2 lb. fried sausage.
1/4 teaspoon red pepper.
2 tablespoons butter.
1/2 teaspoon salt.
1 cup milk.
1 cup cream.
3/4 tablespoon flour.
8 pieces buttered toast.
Make a sauce by boiling milk, cream, flour and butter. Chop eggs with sausage or ham, put into sauce and serve on buttered toast.
12 eggs.
4 slices boiled ham, minced. 1/2 teaspoon minced parsley. 1/4 coffeespoon cayenne pepper.
3/4 cup cream. 2 tablespoons butter. 1/2 teaspoon salt 1 teaspoon flour.
Put eggs into individual dishes and set in a pan of boiling water until cooked. Make a sauce by boiling cream thickened with flour and butter, when cooked add parsley and finely minced ham. Pour this over eggs just before serving.
1 chicken.
8 poached eggs.
1 tablespoon butter.
8 slices toast 2 teaspoons flour. 1 1/2 cups cream.
Boil chicken until tender, then mince fine and season with salt and pepper, add a sauce made by boiling cream, butter and flour. Serve on buttered toast with a poached egg on each.
12 extra large potatoes.
12 eggs.
1 cup cream.
2 1/2 tablespoons butter.
1/4 teaspoon cayenne pepper.
1 teaspoon salt.
Bake potatoes in skin until soft, cut lengthwise and scoop out the center and beat very light, adding cream, butter, salt and pepper. Fill both sides of the potatoes with this, leave a space in the center of each, break a raw egg in the center of one, put one on top of the other and bake.
4 eggs.
2 tablespoons grated cheese.
1/4 teaspoon cayenne pepper.
1 tablespoon flour. 1 tablespoon butter.
Beat eggs separately and light, add to the yolks, flour grated cheese, butter and pepper, stir in whites. Bake in individual dishes.
1 lb. or 1 can beef.
12 eggs.
1 1/2 tablespoons butter.
1 tablespoon cream. 1 pinch pepper.
Scald beef and fry in butter. Just before serving add eggs beaten well, cream and pepper. Scramble.
12 hard boiled eggs. 1 cup milk.
1 cup cream.
2 tablespoons butter.
1 tablespoon flour.
1 teaspoon minced parsley
1/2 teaspoon salt.
1 pinch cayenne pepper.
Slice the eggs in half and keep hot. Make a sauce of milk, when the milk is boiling add flour, butter, salt, pep-per and parsley, cook this until flour is done, then pour over the eggs.
12 hard boiled eggs. 2 tablespoons water. 1/4 teaspoon minced onion 1 teaspoon minced parsley.
1 tablespoon bread crumbs. 1/2 tablespoon butter. 1/2 teaspoon salt 1 pinch cayenne pepper.
Peel and slice eggs lengthwise through the center; take out the yolks, cream with butter, onion, parsley, water, bread crumbs, salt and pepper, then put back into whites and spread a little butter over each; set in stove to get thoroughly heated.
12 eggs.
2 cups grated cheese.
1/2 teaspoon cayenne pepper.
1/2 cup milk.
1/2 teaspoon mustard.
2 tablespoons butter.
Dissolve the mustard in milk, add salt and pepper. Put the cheese in a baking dish and pour the milk over it and add bits of butter; break the eggs whole on the cheese, add the rest of the butter and bake about 15 minutes.
 
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