HOT EGGS.

New Zealand Graphic, Volume XV, Issue XXI, 23 November 1895, Page 662

HOT EGGS.

Eggs hot and eggs cold are both excellent in their way, bnt they can never be used as apt illustrations of the golden m ilium, for a lukewarm egg is anything but enjoyable, and yet any protest on the part of a late arrival at the breakfast table is usually met with the seveiely virtuous remark of, * You should be more punctual.’ Now, for the purpose of keeping our eggs warm and stopping invidious comparisons between late and early rising, nothing can be better than au egg cosy, and my sketch here will give some idea of how

such a receptacle is to be constructed. Cardboard can be used, but thin wood is rather better. In the first place, a square of this should be covered with brown Lolland, the four sides should consist of narrow pieces of cardboard, covered with bands of embroidery, which, in this instance, is of cross stitch. The npper part, as will be seen in the sketch, is divided into four sections, all these are joined firmly together, with the exception of the one at the top, which, opening outwards, reveals the eggs lying in their cosy nest, made with olive-green wool, knitted in loop stitch. This is by far the best lining, although I have seen coloured flannel, pinked out at the edges used for the

purpose. In the latter case the flannel is gathered up into little circles ; the centre of each provides a separate little nest for each egg. All the embroidery can, of course, be dispensed with, and lace over a coloured background, used in its stead.