Chapter XII · Eggs · No. 439
439—Eggs à la Tripe, Bourgeoise
For six eggs chop up two large onions and stew them in butter without colouration. Sprinkle them with one-half oz. of flour, moisten with one pint of boiling milk, and season with salt, pepper, and nutmeg.
Set to cook, gently, for twenty minutes; rub through a fine sieve or through tammy, and transfer the preparation to a saucepan, and heat it well. Dish up the eggs, which should be quartered, in a timbale, and cover them with the preparation of onions, very hot.
Escoffier, A. (1907). A Guide to Modern Cookery, No. 439, p. 174. London: William Heinemann. Translation of Le Guide Culinaire (1903).
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