Eggs à la St. James

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Preparation info
  • Serves

    6

    • Difficulty

      Medium

Appears in
The Official Downton Abbey Cookbook

By Annie Gray

Published 2019

  • About

Delicate molded individual creams and egg-based items appear on the table at Downton at many meals. Sometimes sweet but more often savory, they are far removed from modern dish presentation. Instead, they are ideal for service à la russe, for they look good presented on a large dish en masse but are easily portioned out. Any self-respecting country house kitchen would have had a wide range of molds in copper, tin, and ceramic, and a bewilderingly large number of foods were cooked in