To-day's Recipe

Manawatu Times, Volume 61, Issue 75, 30 March 1936, Page 11

To-day's Recipe

SAVOURY EGG CAKES. Take -1 eggs, 1 gill milk, J-gill water, anchovy essence, loz. butter, lioz. flour, breadcrumbs for coating, pepper, fat for frying. Boil three of the eggs for 15 minutes until hard. CracK the shells and leave in cold water until ready l’o; use, then shell them, and chop tnem finely. Mix the flour to a smooth paste with tho water. Put the milk ana nutter into a saucepan to heat. When hotstir it on the flour, return the saucepan, bring to the boil, am. m>ok for a few minutes, keeping it veil stirred. Add the chopped eggs ana sufficient anchovy essence to flavour. Season with pepper and niix all well together, then spread on a plate and lcavo until quite cold and firm. Divide the mixture into equal small portions and mould each into round shapes with flattened tops. Beat up tho remaining egg aud brush the cakes over with it, then coat them in white breadcrumbs. Put them into boiling fat and cook a golden brown. ■Serve hot ou a laced paper.