This section is from the book "Practical Cooking And Serving", by Janet McKenzie Hill. Also available from Amazon: Practical Cooking and Serving: A Complete Manual of How to Select, Prepare, and Serve Food [1919].
(Pauline Doughty)
5 eggs. 5 tablespoonfuls of powdered sugar. 5 tablespoonfuls of orange juice. A few grains of salt. The grated rind of one orange. Sliced oranges.
Beat the yolks of the eggs until lemon colored and thick; add the orange rind and juice and the sugar; fold in the whites, beaten very light, with the salt. Oil the chafing dish with one tablespoonful of butter, turn in the mixture, and cook over hot water fifteen or twenty minutes. Brown slightly by holding the blazer directly over the flame. Extinguish the lamp and serve, without folding, from the blazer with a dressing of sliced oranges and powdered sugar.
 
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