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“In former times, the old fraud used to whine about poverty and palm him off with cheap cheese and few flavors. But since he had left she got up little delicacies of value which lasted her a week, such as stewed beef smothered in carrots and onions; baked mutton with potatoes as large as melons; or calves-foot, decked with pickled shallots; or a giant omelet sprinkled with parsley or dotted with slices of fat pork of which one sufficed for a meal even when she had an appetite.”
2 eggs 1 tablespoon melted butter ⅛ tablespoon salt Few grains cayenne 1 tablespoon grated cheese Beat eggs slightly, add one-half teaspoon melted butter, salt, cayenne, and cheese. Melt remaining butter, add mixture, and cook until firm, without stirring. Roll, and sprinkle with grated cheese. Serve with Graham bread sandwiches.
Recipe from The Boston cooking-school cook book of 1896.
Sources: Every passage above is quoted verbatim from The Hero of the People: A Historical Romance of Love, Liberty and Loyalty, tr. Williams, Henry Llewellyn, free to read in full at Project Gutenberg. The recipes come from cookbooks of the period, also free in full. All are in the public domain in the United States. The binding is ours — moss cloth, cheese stamp.