799. Cheese Raminole

The Modern Housewife · Soyer, Alexis · 1849
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The Modern Housewife
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Ingredients (11)
paste
topping
glaze
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Instructions (13)
  1. Put a gill of water in a stewpan.
  2. Add two ounces of Gruyère and the same quantity of Parmesan cheese (grated), two ounces of butter, a little cayenne pepper, and salt if required.
  3. Set it upon the fire.
  4. When boiling stir in two or three spoonfuls of flour.
  5. Keep stirring over the fire until the paste becomes dryish and the bottom of the stewpan quite white.
  6. Add three or four eggs by degrees, until forming a paste like No. 724.
  7. Butter a baking-sheet well.
  8. Lay the paste out in pieces upon it with a tablespoon, making them long, and half the size of the bowl of the spoon.
  9. Egg over.
  10. Lay a small piece of Gruyère cheese upon each.
  11. Put them into the oven about twenty minutes before they are required.
  12. Bake them a little crisp.
  13. Serve very hot, dressed in pyramid upon a napkin.
Original Text · last edited 12 days ago
799. Cheese Raminole.—Put a gill of water in a stewpan, to which add two ounces of Gruyère and the same quantity of Parmesan cheese (grated), two ounces of butter, a little cayenne pepper, and salt if required, set it upon the fire, and when boiling stir in two or three spoonfuls of flour; keep stirring over the fire until the paste becomes dryish and the bottom of the stewpan quite white, then add three or four eggs by degrees, until forming a paste like No. 724, butter a baking-sheet well, and lay the paste out in pieces upon it with a tablespoon, making them long, and half the size of the bowl of the spoon; egg over, and lay a small piece of Gruyère cheese upon each, put them into the oven about twenty minutes before they are required; bake them a little crisp, and serve very hot, dressed in pyramid upon a napkin.
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