Larks, served in a nest of eggs or shaped like a pear with their feet as a stalk

Larks in Shells

Boil twelve hen or duck eggs soft; take out all the inside, making a handsome round at the top [of the shell]; then fill half the shells with passed [sieved] crumbs, and roast your larks; put one in every shell, and fill your plate with passed crumbs brown[ed]; so serve as eggs in shells.

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