Greased Eggs
Oven, in the book's wordsA cool oven
Ingredients
Directions
Warm some fat in a pan.
Place the eggs in the warm fat and cover them completely.
Remove the eggs and place them in an old tin or earthen vessel.
Seal the vessel with paste or cement to keep it airtight.
Store the vessel in a cool place; the eggs will remain good all winter.
Recipe from a historical cookbook (Internet Archive).
Transcribed from a scanned cookbook and modernised for today's kitchens. Where the book gave no heat or time, or said "a moderate oven", the temperatures and times here may be modern equivalents rather than the book's own figures.
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