Ah, Eggs a la Goldenrod. Mom served this to us every Sunday at lunch. Well, maybe not every Sunday. But it sure felt like it. I hated Eggs a la Goldenrod.
Then. Now, I crave it. Go figure.
Turns out, this dish has been around for a long, long time.
I knew it had been around since the early 1950’s. A while back, I discovered an old index file full of recipes my mom (or one of her sisters) had collected for a home economics class in high school.
But it’s even older than mid-century.
Fannie Farmer, famed cookbook writer and principal of the famed Boston Cooking School, included it in her first cookbook, The Boston Cooking-School Cook Book, published in 1896.
I bought the cookbook to help me understand what people fixed for dinner at the turn of the century. Specifically, what my characters might eat.
It’s super interesting and very humorous.
I was thrilled to find my old hated, newly loved Eggs a la Goldenrod recipe in this classic.
Try it and let me know if you hate it or love it!