Eggs for Dinner

[donna]

In the next two recipes I post, you see that sometimes eggs were the only food items available for dinner in the south. Eggs were available when no meat was for any amount of money.

Rice-Nested Eggs (recreated)

2 to 3 cups cooked rice
1 (10 oz) pkg. frozen mixed vegetables, cooked only until just barely tender (of course they would have used any vegetables they had)
1 tablespoon butter, cut up or melted
1/2 cup Cheddar cheese, grated
salt and pepper
4 eggs

Combine the first five ingredients and pour into a greased 1-quart oven-to-table casserole dish. Using a spoon make 4 egg-size indentions in the rice mixture. Into these shallow "wells" break 4 eggs. Bake covered at 400 degrees for fifteen minutes, or until as firm as desired.

From: "Confederate Home Cooking" by Patricia B. Mitchell.

 

[donna]

Baked Eggs for Dinner (Authentic)

"Have ready eight or ten hard-boiled eggs, a cup of light grated bread crumbs, butter, pepper, and salt.

Place in a buttered pudding dish a layer of sliced eggs, dotted with bits of butter, and sprinkled with salt and pepper; next a layer of bread crumbs, and so on to the top, being careful to let the top layer be bread crumbs. Bake a light brown."

From: Marion Cabell Tyree, "Housekeepimg in Old Virginia", John P. Morton, Louisville, Kentucky, 1879, page 237; recipe attributed to Mrs. Addison M. Davies, Lynchburg, Virginia.

 

[FarawayFriend]

As nowadays many people are vegetarians, these recipes are still interesting, although probably for a different reason than 140 years ago.
Thank you, donna, I might even try the first one myself.

 

[donna]

I love eggs anytime made many ways.

 

[KansasFreestater]

Thank you, Donna. Can't wait to try 'em!

 

[pamc153PA]

Sometimes on very busy nights, we have breakfast for dinner, and that usually includes eggs. They're fast, easy, versatile and full of protein: egg and cheese sandwiches, scrambled, hardboiled, over easy, you name it. My husband makes a mean omelet, better than I do.

 

[tmh10]

In the next two recipes I post, you see that sometimes eggs were the only food items available for dinner in the south. Eggs were available when no meat was for any amount of money.

Rice-Nested Eggs (recreated)

2 to 3 cups cooked rice
1 (10 oz) pkg. frozen mixed vegetables, cooked only until just barely tender (of course they would have used any vegetables they had)
1 tablespoon butter, cut up or melted
1/2 cup Cheddar cheese, grated
salt and pepper
4 eggs

Combine the first five ingredients and pour into a greased 1-quart oven-to-table casserole dish. Using a spoon make 4 egg-size indentions in the rice mixture. Into these shallow "wells" break 4 eggs. Bake covered at 400 degrees for fifteen minutes, or until as firm as desired.

From: "Confederate Home Cooking" by Patricia B. Mitchell.

I may try this one soon, as we have a lot of fresh vegies from the garden, some given to us by neighbors and some from what we grew. Have plenty and need to use while fresh.

 

[Seduzal]

Thanks Donna for another great recipe. I like for breakfast at least once a month or so soft boiled eggs.
Boil 3 eggs for about 3 minutes, break egg with knife, scoop out with spoon into a cup with melted butter, butter bread and enjoy.

 

[FarawayFriend]

Thanks Donna for another great recipe. I like for breakfast at least once a month or so soft boiled eggs.
Boil 3 eggs for about 3 minutes, break egg with knife, scoop out with spoon into a cup with melted butter, butter bread and enjoy.

One of my favourites, although I boil them a little longer, but the yolk must be still soft. When I was a little girl and did not even go to school my Dad usually left very early for work and he made these "Eier im Glas" for the two of us and I felt very grown up when we sat in the kitchen and had breakfast together.

 

[Seduzal]

One of my favourites, although I boil them a little longer, but the yolk must be still soft. When I was a little girl and did not even go to school my Dad usually left very early for work and he made these "Eier im Glas" for the two of us and I felt very grown up when we sat in the kitchen and had breakfast together.

Thank you, I sometimes boil them a little longer also, but I really like the running. When I was growing up, my friend's grandfather lived in a little house down the road and he would make us kids breakfast of soft boiled on on his wood stove.

 

[donna]

I have to have my whites cooked. The yellow can be some soft.

 

[nitrofd]

We have had baked eggs many times.it is truly a favorite, you can add so much to it.