Fried Eggs - American Recipe

Fried Eggs

🌍 American, American Home Cooking Difficulty: ●○○○○

A staple fried eggs from the American home breakfast table.

Ingredients

Method

1. Put — 3 or 4 tablespoons of bacon grease or similar fat into a frying-pan, set the pan over the fire, and heat until the grease begins to smoke.
2. While — the fat is heating, break as many eggs as will be needed into a bowl.
3. Pour — the eggs carefully into the hot fat, and with a spoon dip up the fat and pour it over the eggs, while allowing them to cook slowly from three to five minutes.
4. Separate — the eggs with a knife if they run together while cooking.
5. If — desired, the eggs may be turned with a pancake-turner and browned on the under side.

Tags: egg · Source: The Plain Sailing Cook Book (1922)