This section is from the book "The Steward's Handbook And Guide To Party Catering", by Jessup Whitehead. Also available from Amazon: Larousse Gastronomique.
Sliced hard-boiled eggs ornamentally set in a mould of aspic jelly, turned out on a border of salad.
Hard-boiled, the whites cut in strips in tomato sauce, in a dish with border of fried bread, the yolks chopped and spread on top.
Hard-boiled, shelled, breaded and fried whole.
Eggs fried on one side, with tomato sauce poured over in the dish.
See omelets.
See plover.
"I agree with Falstaff, in his contempt for the prevalent absurdity of eating eggs, eggs, eggs at breakfast. ' No pullet sperm in my brewage,' say I. I prefer chicken to the egg, and the hen, when she is really a fine bird and well roasted or grilled, to the chicken".
 
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