When you wish to make it into pies, take out some of the meat, chop your apples, and mix with it in the proportions given above. Moisten with cider, and add wine and brandy to your taste.
516. These are generally made of cold boiled ham or tongue. Slice your ham or tongue as thin as possible. Then butter your bread on the loaf, and with a very sharp knife cut it in _very thin_ slices. Roll in each slice of bread a slice of the ham or tongue. A cold fried oyster is very nice in each sandwich.
517. Mix equal portions of wine and water, sweeten it to your taste, and grate nutmeg over the top.
Ale or porter sangaree is made in the same manner.
518. Have a broad shallow vessel of boiling water. Break your eggs in a plate, and be careful not to break the yelks. Take the water from the fire, slide the eggs carefully into it one at a time, and then put them over the fire again. Whilst they are boiling throw the water over the yelks with a spoon, and as soon as the whites are thick take them out with an egg slice. Trim them neatly and send them to the table hot.
519. Beat four eggs very light. Have ready a pan of hot butter, pour the beaten eggs into it, and fry it till it is of a fine brown on the under side, then lap one half over the other, and serve it hot. Just before you lap it, sprinkle a little salt and pepper over the top.
Chopped parsley or onion may be mixed with the egg before it is fried.
520. Whisk four eggs very light, and add to it as much grated ham as will flavor it. Fry it in hot butter till it is brown on the lower side. Sprinkle salt and pepper over it, and fold one half over the other. The salt should not be put in the egg, as it thins it.
521. One gill of bread crumbs, Eight eggs, A gill and a half of cream, Pepper and salt to the taste.
Warm the cream and pour it over a gill of baker's bread crumbs; when the bread is perfectly soft mash it well with the cream, and add pepper and salt to the taste. Beat the eggs and stir them into the bread and cream. Have a pan of hot butter, pour the mixture in and fry it. Do not turn it as that will make it heavy. The top may be browned with a salamander, or the pan of the shovel heated very hot and held near it will brown it. It may be folded one half over the other; in that case it need not be browned with a salamander.