Egg Sauce for Salt Fish
Origin: London, England
Source: Isabella Beeton, 1861
Ingredients
- 4 eggs
- 1/2 pint melted butter, No. 376, when liked
- a very little lemon-juice
Instructions
- Boil the eggs until quite hard, which will be in about 20 minutes, and put them into cold water for 1/2 hour.
- Strip off the shells, chop the eggs into small pieces, not, however, too fine.
- Make the melted butter very smoothly, by recipe No. 376, and, when boiling, stir in the eggs, and serve very hot.
- Lemon-juice may be added at pleasure.