The
search for a recipe from (or rather, named for,) every country in the world
continues today, and it starts where I left off yesterday. The fine selection
of international egg recipes in yesterday’s post came from a column in the Fort Wayne Sentinel (Indiana) of March
21, 1911. Tucked away in the same newspaper, in the Culinary Department of the
Society pages, was the following:
Eggs,
Indian Style.
Chop fine one medium
sized onion, put it in a frying pan with one tablespoonful of butter and cook
very slowly until golden brown. Stir in one teaspoonful of curry powder and
cook slowly for five minutes. Add one tablespoonful of flour and when brown stir
in gradually one and one quarter cupfuls of stock. When thick and smooth add
one tablespoonful of dessicated coconut, one tablespoonful of chutney, and
one-half of a teaspoonful of salt. Add one teaspoonful of lemon juice and
simmer ten minutes. Cut half a dozen thin slices of bread into circles or
squares and fry a golden brown on both sides. Poach six eggs, trim off the
ragged edges and lay one on each piece of fried bread: pour the sauce over them
and serve at once.
Another
Indiana newspaper, the Fort Wayne
Journal-Gazette of Sunday April 15, 1906 provides another egg dishes for
our collection (is there something about Indiana and eggs?)
Eggs Canadian.
Remove the heart of
several fresh round tomatoes. The fill the centre of each with a broken raw
egg: season to the taste with salt and pepper and cover with cream sauce. Place
the tomatoes on a pan in a slow oven and cook fifteen minutes. Pour a brown
sauce around and serve on toast or crackers.
And
from the Boston Sunday Post of June
26, 1904, we can add:
Mexican Eggs.
Chop
one small onion fine and cook in a blazer, with a small piece of butte, until
soft; then add contents of a quart can of tomatoes; season with 2 teaspoons of
salt, paprika, or a little cayenne, a little sugar, large pieces of butter;
when thoroughly cooked, add six eggs, beaten with a teaspoon of flour to
thicken; let it stand a little while; serve hot on crackers.
And
a few more:
Italian
Eggs and Onions.
Cook
two cupfuls of small onions until tender; drain, season with salt and butter.
Put into a shallow baking dish, allowing big space to break, and dispose four
eggs between the onions. Cover with six tablespoonfuls of cheese and place in a
moderate oven until the eggs are set and the cheese melted.
New
Oxford Item of March 10, 1921
Polish Eggs.
6 eggs beaten 1
tablespoon cream
½ cup grated cheese 2 tablespoons Crisco
(melted)
1 teaspoon minced
parsley 1¾ cups small
bread dice
1 teaspoon minced onion ½ teaspoon salt
⅓ teaspoon pepper
Mix eggs, cheese,
parsley, onion, seasoning, cream, and melted Crisco. Add the diced bread. Drop
by tablespoonfuls into hot deep Crisco (360o-170o F., or
when one-inch cube of bread browns in 60 seconds) and fry a light brown 9about
2 minutes). Serve plain or with Tomato Sauce (1½ cups) or Tartar Sauce (1 cup.)
Hamilton
Evening Journal October 8, 1931
LOL Must of been a lot of chicken farmers in Indiana in the early 1900s! Of course, the other explanation could be the beginning of spring and what to do with all those eggs.
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