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( Eggs With Bacon, Onions And Potatoes )
Hoppelpoppel
( Eggs With Bacon, Onions And Potatoes )
Ingredients
3 medium-sized boiling potatoes (about 1 lb), unpeeled
6 oz coarsely diced lean bacon
2 oz finely chopped onions
4 eggs
2½ teaspoons milk
2 tablespoons finely chopped parsley
½ teaspoon salt
Freshly ground black pepper
Details
Serves: 2
Method
Drop the potatoes into enough lightly salted boiling water to cover them completely. Boil briskly, uncovered, until the potatoes show only the slightest resistance when pierced with the tip of a small, sharp knife. Be careful not to let them overcook.
Meanwhile cook the bacon over a moderate heat in a large, heavy frying pan until brown and crisp. Transfer the pieces of bacon with a perforated spoon to a double thickness of kitchen paper to drain. Pour all but 2 or 3 tablespoons of fat from the pan, add the onions, and cook for 5 minutes, stirring them frequently, until they are soft and transparent but not brown. Set the frying pan aside.
Drain the potatoes in a colander, then peel and cut them into ¼ inch slices. Add them to the onions in the frying pan and cook over a moderate heat for 8 to 10 minutes, turning the potatoes occasionally with a large spatula, until they are light brown. Then beat the eggs, milk, parsley, salt and a few grindings of pepper together with a fork in a small bowl until they are well blended. Strew the diced bacon over the potatoes and pour in the eggs. Tip the pan from side to side to spread the eggs evenly and cover the frying pan. Reduce the heat to low and cook undisturbed for 5 or 6 minutes, shaking the pan gently every now and then to prevent the eggs from sticking. The Hoppelpoppel is done when the eggs are set, but still slightly moist. To serve, invert a heated serving plate over the frying pan and, grasping pan and plate firmly together, quickly turn them over. Serve at once.
NOTE:- 6oz of finely diced cooked ham may be substituted for the bacon. In that case, melt 2 oz of lard or bacon fat in the frying pan and cook the diced ham and the onions together for 5 minutes. Add the sliced potatoes and proceed with the recipe as described above.
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