[Sca-cooks] Eggs in mustard sauce

[Philip & Susan Troy]

Also sprach Olwen the Odd:
>>At 06:11 PM 4/10/02 +0000, you wrote:
>>>
>>>Hi all.  Anyone have the recipe for eggs in mustard sauce handy?
>>
>>_Which_ eggs in mustard sauce? Any idea where it's from? I have the 2-15th
>>c Cookery books and COI at arm's reach...
>>
>>'Lainie sans Bob
>
>Heck, I don't know.  I was asked by someone if I could get the recipe.
>Would it help to think French?
>Olwen

How about the Mustard Sops from Taillevent? Which I now can't find...

Essentially you're poaching eggs gently in oil, then frying chopped
onion in that same oil until brown but soft, then adding mustard to
that, then serving the eggs on sops with the sauce poured over.

As I recall this is the genuine reality behind the chicken
stock/cream/egg-yolk mustard soup (with green pea garnish) found
originally in Esther Aresty's "The Delectable Past", and formerly so
popular in the SCA.

Adamantius