This dessert can be made very conveniently without much preparation.
Take the yolks of six eggs, beat them well and add three cupfuls of sweet milk; take baker's bread, not too stale, and cut into slices; dip them into the milk and eggs and lay the slices into a spider, with sufficient melted butter, hot, to fry a delicate brown. Take the whites of the six eggs and beat them to a froth, adding a large cupful of white sugar; add the juice of two lemons, heating well and adding two cupfuls of boiling water. Serve over the toast as a sauce an you will find it a very delicious dish.
It does sound delicious and, I imagine, the home cook could simply fry the bread in a pan rather than utilizing a "spider" with which I am unfamiliar. Bon appetite ~
Header: Bodegon by Benjamin Palencia c 1924 via Old Paint
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A "spider" is/was a frying pan with long, thin legs that were used to hold it over a hearth. Even though the legs have disappeared, that's still a term used in some parts of the country.
Awesome; thanks for adding to this post, Undine. I've got a cold so I will admit to being just listless enough to forgo looking that up. As always, I can count on you :)
It sounds kind of like French toast with a lemon meringue topping, Pauline...
It does; very old-timey too.
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