- 1 tablespoon butter
- 1 tablespoon flour
- 2⁄3 cup milk
- 3 eggs
- 1 tablespoon chopped parsley
- 1⁄2 teaspoon salt
- 1⁄8 teaspoon pepper
- Few grains celery salt
- Few grains cayenne
Make a sauce of the butter, flour, and milk; add yolks beaten until thick and lemon-colored, then add seasonings. Beat whites of eggs until stiff and dry, and cut and fold into first mixture. Turn into buttered moulds, set in pan of hot water, and bake in a slow oven until firm. Serve with Tomato Cream Sauce (see page 271).
- 6 eggs
- 2 tablespoons butter
- 1 slice onion
- 1⁄3 cup flour
- 1 cup white stock
- Salt
- Pepper
- Yolks 3 eggs
- Stale bread crumbs
- Grated cheese
Poach eggs and dry on a towel. Cook butter with onion three minutes. Add flour and, gradually, stock. Season with salt and pepper; then add yolks of eggs slightly beaten. Cook one minute, and cool. Cover eggs with mixture, roll in bread crumbs and cheese, using equal parts, dip in egg, again roll in crumbs, fry in deep fat, and drain on brown paper. These may be served with a thin sauce, using equal parts of white stock and cream, and seasoning with grated cheese, salt, and paprika.
Decorate egg-shaped individual moulds with truffles, and cold boiled tongue cut in fancy shapes, and pistachio nuts blanched and split. Line mould with aspic jelly, drop in a poached egg yolk, cover with aspic jelly, let stand until firm, and turn on a thin oval slice of cold boiled tongue.
Butter small timbale moulds, sprinkle with finely chopped truffles, parsley, and cooked beets. Break eggs, and slip
