Ham Toast

Well, since the unappetizing-sounding Cold Ham and Meat Croquettes were good, let's push our luck and try the prior entry, something called Ham Toast. (Ham Toast, in my mind, evokes head cheese, a truly unappetizing concept.) But a brief glance through the ingredients tells me it contains no ingredients I refuse to eat (bugs, brains, viscera, and raw celery). Matter of fact, it looks like ham and egg('s yolk) on toast, which I'm perfectly willing to eat.

Bread, pepper, egg, ham, cream, and butter (not shown) needed.

One problem I run into frequently is how much of any ingredient to use. The amounts of cream and pepper called for here is "a little." I figure for the amount of food being made, a little pepper in this case means a dash. A little cream is perhaps a teaspoon. Truly, I'm just making this up and hoping to recreate these recipes properly, but it is certainly fun to play around in the kitchen. (Beta Taster though wishes it would result in fewer dishes for him.)

Ready for cooking.

Ham Toast
(attempted, and likely modified, from Sweet Home Cook Book)

1 tablespoons finely chopped ham
1 egg yolk
1 teaspoon cream
dash pepper
1 slice buttered toast

1. Mix all but toast together and place in cold skillet.
2. Heat over medium heat
3. Spread over toast
4. Eat while hot.

Results: Since it should be abundantly obvious I don't quite know what I'm doing, I guessed and cooked the egg to about as done as it would be for an over medium fried egg, then I spread it about on my toast like it was a jam. And ate it. It was tasty. Quite rich, of course, what with cream and egg yolk and no white to spread out the richness.  The ham was a nice salty counterpoint to the the richness of the egg and added pepper. When I make it again, I'll likely just use the whole egg though. Since I didn't want to just throw out the white, I scrambled it and had it alongside my ham toast. And scrambled egg whites are awfully boring.

Ham toast.

Beta Taster: "Well, that's something..." Since he's not particularly fond of eggs he added hot sauce to it and politely said he'd stick to granola in the future but he's glad he tried it.