This section is from the book "Soyer's Standard Cookery", by Nicolas Soyer. Also available from Amazon: Soyer's Standard Cookery.
Fry one small sliced onion and put it through a sieve, mix with it one dessertspoonful of flour which has been mixed smooth in rather less than half a pint of milk; season with pepper and salt. Stir over a slow fire for about seven minutes. Beat well two fresh eggs, stir these into the milk and onion, have ready some hot buttered toast, and after stirring the eggs for five minutes pour over the toast, and' send at once to table.
 
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