Eggs and Bacon in Flummery

Ingredients

• 5 eggs
• 1 pint stiff flummery
• red food coloring
• ½ cup apricot preserves
• edible flowers for garnish

Directions

1. Beat the yolks of the eggs and mix with the whites.

2. Heat the mixture over low heat, stirring until almost boiling.

3. Pour into a bowl and let it cool.

4. Prepare the flummery by coloring part of it pink with food coloring.

5. Dip a potting pot in cold water and pour in a layer of red flummery, then a layer of white, and repeat, ensuring each layer is set before adding the next.

6. Pour a large spoonful of white flummery into five tea cups and let them stand overnight.

7. Turn the flummery out onto a wet plate and cut into thin slices.

8. Arrange the slices on a china dish and top each with a piece of apricot preserves.

9. Garnish with edible flowers.