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

[Sue Clemenger]

Sodde eggs? Recipe please?
--Maire, the cookbook deficient <g>

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).
>
>                                         ---= Morgan