715. Crusts of Fruit

The Modern Housewife · Soyer, Alexis · 1849
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The Modern Housewife
Time
Cook: 20 min Total: 20 min
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Ingredients (5)
Instructions (10)
  1. Put a quarter of a pound of butter in a sauté- or frying-pan.
  2. Sprinkle a little sugar over.
  3. Cut four or five slices of bread a quarter of an inch thick, three inches long, and one and a half wide.
  4. Lay the bread slices in your pan.
  5. Lay the skin part of the greengages on your bread.
  6. Put a pinch of sugar in each greengage half.
  7. Put it in a hot oven for twenty minutes.
  8. Have ready a salamander or a hot shovel, and hold it over it for a few minutes.
  9. Dish and serve hot or cold.
  10. The oven ought to be hot enough to give a nice yellow color to the bottom, which will eat crisp.
Original Text · last edited 12 days ago
715. Crusts of Fruit.—Put a quarter of a pound of butter in a sauté- or frying-pan, sprinkle a little sugar over, cut four or five slices of bread a quarter of an inch thick, three inches long, and one and a half wide, lay in your pan; take one dozen of greengages, open them in two, they must not be too ripe, lay the skin part on your bread, put a pinch of sugar in each, put it in a hot oven for twenty minutes; have ready a salamander or a hot shovel, and hold it over it for a few minutes, dish and serve hot or cold; the oven ought to be hot enough to give a nice yellow color to the bottom, which will eat crisp.
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