Thanks and Breakfast question, was Re:SC - What would you do?

[harper at idt.net]

As I said before, Granado has a number of egg recipes which might 
be of interest to you.  I do not have reason to think that they were 
served for breakfast in period.  I don't have any of them translated, 
but here's a summary:

soft-boiled eggs

baked eggs (not beaten or scrambled) served with salt, sugar, 
cinnamon, sour orange juice

eggs fried in butter, sunnyside up (or over, if you want them hard), 
served with orange juice and sugar

eggs fried in lard with sprigs of rosemary, served with sugar and 
orange juice (may substitute olive oil for the lard).  Optional 
addition: eyes, such as ox eyes.

Boil eggs until firm.  Put in cold water, then remove shells.  Coat 
eggs with flour, fry them in lard or oil, and serve with sugar and 
orange juice, or with garlic sauce or other sauces.

Layered omlettes.  Make 10 1-egg omlettes, and stack them on a 
plate.  In between each layer, sprinkle: cinnamon, sugar, orange 
juice, raisins cooked in wine, slices of new cheese or grated 
buttery cheese, mint, and marjoram.  Top the stack with melted 
butter, sugar, and rosewater.  When making the omlettes, you can 
beat the eggs with clear water or with the milk of goats or cows.

omelettes with mint, marjoram, pinenuts, and roasted truffles, 
served with sugar, sour orange juice, and cinnamon

eggs scrambled in butter with verjuice, orange juice, and sugar.  
Serve with rosewater and sugar on top.

Salviata: beat eggs with the "juice" of sage and spinach, and strain 
through a cloth.  Add a little salt, sugar, and cinnamon.  Fry it in 
lard.  When half-cooked, add a little verjuice.  Serve hot with sugar 
and cinnamon on top.  You can also cook it like the scrambled egg 
recipe above.

eggs with herbs:  prepare a broth of lard, salt, water, pepper, 
cinnamon, and saffron.  Add chopped spinach, chard, mint, and 
marjoram.  Boil the herbs for a little while, then add beaten eggs, 
grated bread, cheese.  Stir with a spoon, and when the eggs come 
to the surface, they are done.

Brighid, who would rather look up recipes than contemplate the 
18+ inches of white stuff in her very long driveway


Lady Brighid ni Chiarain
Settmour Swamp, East (NJ)
mka Robin Carroll-Mann
harper at idt.net