American Medium Mrs. F.L. Gillette

Cheese Fondu

Original Recipe

Melt an ounce of butter and whisk into it a pint of boiled milk. Dissolve two tablespoonfuls of flour in a gill of cold milk, add it to the boiled milk and let it cool. Beat the yolks of four eggs with a heaping teaspoonful of salt, half a teaspoonful of pepper and five ounces of grated cheese. Whip the whites of the eggs and add them, pour the mixture into a deep tin lined with buttered paper, and allow for the rising, say four inches. Bake twenty minutes and serve the moment it leaves the oven.

Ingredients

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  • 1 pint of boiled milk
  • 2 tablespoonfuls of flour in a gill of cold milk
  • 4 eggs with a heaping teaspoonful of salt
  • 1 teaspoonful of pepper and five ounces of grated cheese
  • 1 deep tin lined with buttered paper
  • 4 inches

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Instructions

  1. 1

    Melt an ounce of butter and whisk into it a pint of boiled milk.

  2. 2

    Dissolve two tablespoonfuls of flour in a gill of cold milk, add it to the boiled milk and let it cool.

  3. 3

    Beat the yolks of four eggs with a heaping teaspoonful of salt, half a teaspoonful of pepper and five ounces of grated cheese.

  4. 4

    Whip the whites of the eggs and add them, pour the mixture into a deep tin lined with buttered paper, and allow for the rising, say four inches.

  5. 5

    Bake twenty minutes and serve the moment it leaves the oven.

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