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Three Eggs (Fry the onion in the butter)

Fry the onion in the butter, add the tomatoes chillies and curry. Then pour in the stock and boil for about half an hour. Skim well. Let the soup cool. Beat the whites and yolks of the eggs together, wash and crush the shells, and add all to the soup. Stir over the fire until boiling, and strain in the usual way. Serve boiled rice separately. "Mollet" (Indian Breakfast Dish).

Ingredients.

Two ounces of Butter.

One rather large Onion sliced.

Two pounds of Fish.

One ounce and a half of Sweet Almonds.

Half a pint of Water.

One ounce of Turmeric.

One teaspoonful of Salt.

Cayenne. Two or three chopped green Chillies.

Melt the butter in a saucepan, and fry the onion a little. Blanch the almonds and pound F them, adding the water by degrees. Then put the almonds, water, salt, cayenne, turmeric and chillies into the saucepan and boil for about five minutes.

Have the fish boned if possible, and cut in pieces about one and a half inches square, place these pieces in the stewpan and cook slowly until done, from fifteen to thirty minutes according to the sort of fish. Take out the chillies, and serve with boiled rice.