A Hen's Nest
Origin: Tidewater Virginia
Source: Mary Randolph, 1824
Ingredients
- 5 whole small eggs
- blanc mange
- 6 whole lemons
- sugar
- jelly, nice
Instructions
- Get five small eggs, make a hole at one end, and empty the shells.
- Fill them with blanc mange;
- when stiff and cold, take off the shells.
- Pare the yellow rind very thin from six lemons, boil them in water till tender, then cut them in thin strips to resemble straw, and preserve them with sugar.
- Fill a small deep dish half full of nice jelly.
- When it is set, put the straw on in the form of a nest, and lay the eggs in it.
- It is a beautiful dish for a dessert or supper.