Eggs and Bacon

A Handbook of Cookery for a Small House · Conrad, Jessie · 1923
Source
A Handbook of Cookery for a Small House
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Ingredients (3)
Instructions (10)
  1. Take the rashers of bacon and carefully remove all the rind.
  2. Use preferably an enamelled frying pan in which a piece of butter the size of a walnut has been made hot.
  3. Lay the bacon in this.
  4. The stove should be hot enough to cook the bacon with the top on.
  5. Turn the bacon twice and cook for eight to ten minutes.
  6. Dish on a hot flat dish.
  7. Allow an egg for each rasher, breaking the eggs lightly without breaking the yolks into a cup one at a time and turn into the pan.
  8. Allow the boiling fat to run round the eggs.
  9. Cook for three minutes and dish with a slice placing one egg on each rasher of bacon.
  10. The pan when removed from the stove must not be put into the sink as the cold water there will cause it to smell unpleasantly.
Original Text
Eggs and Bacon This dish is perhaps the most appetising breakfast dish and yet often the most unpleasant on account of the smell. Cooked in the following way there should be no smell at all. Take the rashers of bacon and carefully remove all the rind. Use preferably an enamelled frying pan in which a piece of butter the size of a walnut has been made hot. Lay the bacon in this. The stove should be hot enough to cook the bacon with the top on. Turn the bacon twice and cook for eight to ten minutes. Dish on a hot flat dish. Allow an egg for each rasher, breaking the eggs lightly without breaking the yolks into a cup one at a time and turn into the pan. Allow the boiling fat to run round the eggs. Cook for three minutes and dish with a slice placing one egg on each rasher of bacon. The pan when removed from the stove must not be put into the sink as the cold water there will cause it to smell unpleasantly.
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