Low Cost Recipes

Feeding a family well on little, 1914 - soups to cakes, with every left-over accounted for.

Eggs

9 recipes in this part of Low Cost Recipes.

Eggs Brouilli

Beat well 4 eggs. Add to them I teaspoonful of beef extract dissolved in 3 tablespoonfuls of hot water, 4 tablespoonfuls of cream, a pinch…

Eggs à la Bonne Femme

Peel and chop fine I large white onion. Fry slowly in a frying-pan with I heaping tablespoonful of butter. When a delicate brown, spread…

Egg Timbales

Beat 6 eggs until light, add I level teaspoonful salt, I tablespoonful onion juice, 1/4 teaspoonful paprika and 34 of a pint of milk…

Eggs in Tomato Cups

For each person allow I egg and I tomato. Cut a piece from the stem end of the tomato and with a spoon scoop out the center. Sprinkle the…

Beauregard Eggs

Cover 3 eggs with boiling water, and keep the latter at simmering point for three-quarters of an hour, then cool and shell the eggs. Chop…

Potato Omelet

Put through the ricer sufficient hot potatoes to make I pint. Beat 3 eggs until very light, season with salt and pepper and mix with the…

Rice Omelet

Warm I cupful of boiled rice with I tablespoonful of butter in I cupful of milk. Add 3 well-beaten eggs and a pinch of salt, pour into hot…

Poached Eggs à la Creole

Stew together I can of tomatoes (or I quart freshly cut), I green pepper seeded and cut fine and 14 of a teaspoonful of salt. When the…

Eggs Aurore

Eggs aurore need a cream tomato sauce. Stew the tomatoes with onion, bay leaf, salt and pepper; rub through a sieve and thicken, using 1…

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