Fricasie of Eggs Old Elizabethan Recipe

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Fricasie of Eggs Old Elizabethan Recipe

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To make a Fricasie of Eggs
Beat twelve Eggs with Cream, Sugar, beaten spice and Rosewater, then take thin slices of Pomewater Apple, and fry them well with sweet Butter; when they are enough, take them up, and cleanse your pan, then put in more butter and make it hot, and put in half your Eggs and fry them; then when the one side is fryed lay your Apples all over the side which is not fryed, then pour in the rest of your Eggs, and then turn it and fry the other side, then serve it in with the Juice of an Orange and Butter, and Sugar.

Fricasie of Eggs Old Elizabethan Recipe
The above Old recipe is taken from for Fricasie of Eggs is written in totally different way to today's recipe books.

There were no lists of ingredients - these were included as part of the text
Food and ingredient measurements were extremely basic - quantities were not often specified.
Temperature control was difficult and therefore not specified.
Cooking times were vague - and left to the cook to decide.
It was assumed that the reader would already have some knowledge of cooking

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