Thursday, March 31, 2011

Cheese and Onion Savoury

2 eggs
1 pt. milk
Pinch cayenne pepper
1/2 tspn. salt

Method: Butter some slices of stale bread. Place in pie dish with layer of sliced cheese and chopped onion between layers of bread and butter. Beat eggs with milk and add cayenne pepper and salt. Pour over bread, etc. in pie dish. Top with grated cheese, small dabs of butter and fine bread crumbs. Bake in moderate oven until set and golden brown on top.

Source: contributed by J. Sheldrick in Recipe Book Containing the Favourite Recipes of Members of the Payneham Methodist Women's Fellowship, 1961 (Payneham [Adelaide]: 1961), p.17.
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