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Eggs and Onions

Fry some onions, nicely sliced, in butter; put a rather large sprinkling of cayenne pepper over them. Drain them from the butter, and put them on a dish before the fire to dry a little. Press out the juice of a lemon over them, and then lay nicely-poached eggs on the top. Serve very hot. Time to fry onions, five minutes; to poach eggs, three to four minutes. Six eggs sufficient for three persons.