The 1918 Fanny Farmer Cookbook


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Poached Eggs à la Reine  
Cover circular pieces of toasted bread with sliced fresh mushrooms sauted in butter and  
moistened with cream. Poach eggs and arrange on mushrooms. Pour over all white sauce to  
which grated Parmesan cheese has been added. Sprinkle with grated cheese and put in oven to  
brown. Garnish with canned pimentoes cut in fancy shapes.  
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Eggs à la Suisse  
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eggs  
Salt  
/2 cup cream  
Pepper  
tablespoon butter  
Cayenne  
tablespoons grated cheese  
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Heat a small omelet pan, put in butter, and when melted, add cream. Slip in the eggs one at a  
time, sprinkle with salt, pepper, and a few grains of cayenne. When whites are nearly firm,  
sprinkle with cheese. Finish cooking, and serve on buttered toast. Strain cream over the toast.  
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Eggs Susette  
Wash and bake six large potatoes, cut slice from top of each, scoop out inside, and mash. To  
three cups mashed potato add six tablespoons finely chopped ham, two tablespoons finely  
chopped parsley, whites of two eggs well beaten, three tablespoons butter, four tablespoons  
cream, and salt and pepper. Line potato shells with mixture place in each cavity a poached  
egg,  
cover with potato mixture, and bake until browned. Care must be taken to have eggs  
delicately  
parched.  
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Baked or Shirred Eggs  
Butter an egg−shirrer. Cover bottom and sides with fine cracker crumbs. Break an egg into a  
cup, and carefully slip into shirrer. Cover with seasoned buttered crumbs, and bake in  
moderate  
oven until white is firm and crumbs brown. The shirrers should be placed on a tin plate, that  
they  
may be easily removed from the oven.  
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Chapter VII − EGGS  
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