[Sca-cooks] Re: Boiled eggs as a garnish

[Philip & Susan Troy]

Morgan Cain wrote:

> I don't know the earliest reference, although I have some pretty solid ones
> in Renaissance Germany.  In fact, both the feasts I am cooking next January
> will have salads garnished with hard-boiled eggs (fast protein in the first
> course).
>
> I'll disagree with the people who are recommending Apicius' boiled eggs in
> sauce, because there the eggs are the main ingredient and not a garnish.
> Although I often make sodde egges as a "comfort food" on chill winter
> evenings (not as many of those in Ansteorra as I survived in the Midrealm,
> but enough).


Except the question addressed both boiled eggs as a garnish and boiled eggs as an ingredient.


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