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Puff pastry with egg and anchovy

Cut-out rounds of puff pastry topped with half a hard-boiled egg and two anchovy fillets crossed over it, the edge brushed with egg, baked pale golden and sprinkled with chopped parsley. From Erken's Stor kokebok (1949), p. 26.

Source: Henriette Schønberg Erken, Stor kokebok, 1949-utg. s. 26 (falt i det fri)

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About the dish

A simple hot small dish made from the puff pastry in the preceding recipes; Erken specifies pastry made with 3/4 kg butter.

How to make it

  1. 1

    Cut out the pastry

    Roll the puff pastry out to 0.5 cm thickness and cut out rounds with a round cutter.

  2. 2

    Add egg and anchovy

    Put half a hard-boiled egg in the middle of each round and lay two cleaned anchovy fillets crosswise over it.

  3. 3

    Brush and bake

    Brush the edge of the pastry with egg and bake the rounds pale golden.

  4. 4

    Serve

    Sprinkle with chopped parsley and serve at once.

Changes from the original

'Anchovy fillets in a cross' is interpreted as two fillets per round. The original gives no oven temperature and no quantities for egg, anchovy or parsley.

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1949 (proofread, p. 26) → Modernised~82% of the text changedremovedadded
Butterdeigen kjevles butterdeig (av ¾ kg smør; mengde ferdig deig ikke oppgitt). 0,5 stk hardkokt egg (per kake). ansjosfileter (rensede, to per kake). egg (til pensling). persille (hakket). Kjevl butterdeigen ut i ½ cm. tykkelse, stikkes cm tykkelse og stikk ut runde kaker med et rundt jern. ½ hårdkokt jern.. Legg et halvt hardkokt egg legges midt på butterdeigen, hver kake og herover legges to rensede ansjosfileter i kors. Kanten på kors over.. Pensle kanten av butterdeigen pensles med egg; stekes lysegule. Strøes med egg og stek kakene lysegule.. Strø over hakket persille, persille og serveres server straks. Butterdeig av ¾ kg. smør egg ansjos persille.

Note on Modernised

«Ansjosfileter i kors» er tolket som to filetter per kake. Ovnstemperatur er ikke oppgitt i originalen, og mengder av egg, ansjos og persille er ikke oppgitt.

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What pastry is used?
Puff pastry made with 3/4 kg butter.
How are they served?
Immediately, sprinkled with chopped parsley.

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