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].

Prepare the eggs as for stuffed eggs with salad, but cut the eggs in halves, crosswise, instead of lengthwise; make the mixture level with the edge of the halves of egg; brush over the edge of one white with uncooked white of egg and press the corresponding half closely upon it; let stand to dry. Cut white tissue paper into pieces six inches square, fringe the opposite sides, and roll an egg in each paper, adding with the egg a sentiment or quotation within on a bit of paper; twist the fringed ends in the same manner as "candy secrets." Serve in a small basket lined with ferns.
 
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