Photo: Joseph Gonzalez
Ingredients
- a slice of bread nicely over the coals
Directions
1
Brown a slice of bread nicely over the coals, dip it in hot water slightly salted, butter it, and lay on the top an egg that has been broken into boiling water, and cooked until the white has hardened; season the egg with a bit of butter and a crumb of salt.
2
The best way to cook eggs for an invalid is to drop them, or else pour boiling water over the egg in the shell and let it stand for a few minutes on the back of the stove.
By F. L. Gillette and Hugo Ziemann ·
Recipe sourced from
gutenberg