Hard-Boiled Eggs with Potatoes

Coming upon this rough little dish brushing shoulders with the sometimes extravagant refinements of Ali Bab’s monumental Gastronomie Pratique is a bit like being offered a beer to quench one’s thirst after having spent days tasting in the cellars of Champagne. He notes, “This dish, which I had occasion to taste in the country, seemed excellent to me after a long walk.” He apparently made no attempt to re-create the object of this sentimental memory in his own kitchen, for the proport