Buttered Eggs

Ingredients

• 4 new-laid eggs
• 2 oz butter

Instructions

1. Procure the eggs new-laid if possible; break them into a basin, and beat them well;
2. put the butter into another basin, which place in boiling water, and stir till the butter is melted.
3. Pour that and the eggs into a lined saucepan; hold it over a gentle fire, and, as the mixture begins to warm, pour it two or three times into the basin, and back again, that the two ingredients may be well incorporated.
4. Keep stirring the eggs and butter one way until they are hot, _without boiling_, and serve on hot buttered toast.
5. If the mixture is allowed to boil, it will curdle, and so be entirely spoiled.