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Fried egg

noun

Eggs cooked by sauteing in oil or butter; sometimes turned and cooked on both sides.

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"Fried egg" Quotes from Famous Books

... ten pounds since the night before. He was horribly haggard, but he talked and laughed in a manner rather unusual for him, as he ate his breakfast. Charlotte watched jealously that he should do that. When he took his second badly fried egg, she beamed, and he concealed ...

— The Debtor - A Novel • Mary E. Wilkins Freeman

... I knew Mrs. Fielding didn't raise her boy to be a fried egg. Goodbye, Dust Bin! Hello, New Chi!" Bill was up on his hands and knees pounding on his cot. "But what's the matter with you? You like ...

— Narakan Rifles, About Face! • Jan Smith

... cold fried egg salad, or whatever fancy dish it was we had on the platter, and then we pikes off to the pier where he says the yacht's tied up. And say, she was somethin' of a boat. She made that Dixie Girl, that Woodie and me brought the Incubator kids down in, look like a canoe. She was white all over, ...

— Shorty McCabe • Sewell Ford

... sufficiently on the upper side. They will be done enough in about three minutes; the white must retain its transparency so that the yolk will be seen through it. When done, take them up with a tin slice, drain off the lard, and if any part of the white is discoloured or ragged, trim it off. Lay a fried egg upon each slice of the broiled ham, and send them ...

— Directions for Cookery, in its Various Branches • Eliza Leslie