EGGS with ARTICHOKE BOTTOMS

The Experienced English Housekeeper · Elizabeth Raffald · 1784

Source: The Experienced English Housekeeper
Status: success · extracted 12 days ago
Not a recipe: No

Ingredients (7)

For boiling artichoke bottoms

hard water ↝ Water, tap [Tap water]
ſoft water ↝ Water, tap [Tap water]
a good lump of butter ↝ Butter, stick, unsalted [Dairy and Egg Products]

For dressing

the yolk of an hard egg ↝ Egg, yolk only, raw [Eggs and omelets]
good melted butter ↝ Butter, stick, unsalted [Dairy and Egg Products]

Optional garnish

aſparagus ↝ Asparagus, raw [Vegetables and Vegetable Products]
brocoli ↝ Broccoli, raw [Vegetables and Vegetable Products]

Instructions (6)

Boil artichoke bottoms in hard water, or if dry ones in soft water.
Put a good lump of butter in the water; this will make them boil in half the time, and they will be white and plump.
When you take them up, put the yolk of a hard-boiled egg in the middle of every bottom.
Pour good melted butter upon them.
Serve them up.
You may lay asparagus, or broccoli, between every bottom.

Original Text

To dress EGGS with ARTICHOKE BOTTOMS.
BOIL your artichoke bottoms in hard water,
if dry ones in ſoft water, put in a good lump of
butter in the water, it will make them boil in
half the time, and they will be white and plump;
when you take them up put the yolk of an hard
egg in the middle of every bottom, and pour
good melted butter upon them, and ſerve them
up; you may lay aſparagus, or brocoli, betwixt
every bottom.

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