SOME EGG RECIPES. 117 
Eggs cooked in fat are indigestible, because 
the high temperature of the fat — three hundred 
to four hundred degrees — hardens the albumen 
so the digestive fluids cannot penetrate it. 
ROASTED EGGS. 
“ The vulgar boil, the learned roast an egg.” 
ALEXANDER POPE. 
This was probably the original way of cook- 
ing eggs,as of meats. It was the Celtic method, 
and Martial mentions it as common among the 
Romans. 
People fortunate enough to live in camp have 
discovered anew this delightful way of serving 
egos. <A soft, velvet-like substance results, 
which cannot be obtained by any other method of 
cooking. Unless the shells are slightly pricked, 
a sudden explosion may surprise the watchers 
round the camp-fire. 
The large ends are placed down, the whole 
covered with leaves, ashes and coals heaped on 
top, and left there for ten minutes. 
