Vladimir Nabokov’s Eggs à la Nabocoque-
This month's recipe deals with eggs.
Quote:
"Boil water in a saucepan (bubbles mean it is boiling!). Take two eggs
(for one person) out of the refrigerator. Hold them under the hot tap
water to make them ready for what awaits them.
Place each in a pan, one after the other, and let them slip
soundlessly into the (boiling) water. Consult your wristwatch. Stand
over them with a spoon preventing them (they are apt to roll) from
knocking against the damned side of the pan.
If, however, an egg cracks in the water (now bubbling like mad) and
starts to disgorge a cloud of white stuff like a medium in an old
fashioned seance, fish it out and throw it away. Take another and be
more careful.
After 200 seconds have passed, or, say, 240 (taking interruptions
into account), start scooping the eggs out. Place them, round end up, in
two egg cups. With a small spoon tap-tap in a circle and hen pry open
the lid of the shell. Have some salt and buttered bread (white) ready.
Eat."
Ingredients:
Eggs
Steps:
1) Boil eggs.
2) You're done!
3) No, really.
Vladimir Nabokov is many things, but a gourmet chef is not one of them.
much love,
hedgie
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