Ox Eyes & Eggs in Hell (egg dishes)

Sun Sep 3 00:11:11 UTC 2006

EGGS IN HELL--67,100 Google hits
OX EYES + EGGS--407 Google hits
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OED has an "ox eye" entry, but no "ox eyes." Is this egg dish German?
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Any hint where "Eggs in Hell" comes from?
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Any "braggin' (bragging) bread" (cornbread) in the Dallas Morning News?
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20 April 1893, Ohio Farmer, pg. 319:
OX EYES. -- Take inch thick slices from light bread, cut into circles with a 
small cookie cutter, about three inches in diameter, cut out the center, 
leaving a wide ring of bread. Fry these rings in butter, lay them in a buttered 
dish, and pour over cream to moisten. Place a raw egg carefully in each ring, 
and set in the oven till the egg is well set; garnish with lettuce or English 
 mustard.
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13 October 1909, Coshocton (Ohio) Daily Tribune, pg. 7:
"Ox Eyes" For Two.
The drawback of fancy named for dishes is their tendency to be deficient in 
prosaic information. Would you order"angels on horseback," for instance, if 
you did not know what sort of thing it was? And to appeal to the waiter to 
interpret is humiliating. A correspondent recalls his own fate in the matter of 
"ochsenaugen" (ox eyes). Having repeatedly seen them on the menu among the 
pudding class during a tour in Germany, he and his wife eventually ordered them. 
 "Two portions?" asked the woman waiter. "Oh, yes, two portions." It proved 
that two portions of ox eyes meant six fried eggs -- as the final course of a 
hearty meal. And, as the wife had the moral courage to refuse to eat more 
than one, the cowardly husband, unwilling to give away that he had not known 
what he was ordering, had to worry down the five others.
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_Snowball Dessert Variation Is Good Cooler; Corn Flakes Used As the Coating 
Sunday Menu _ 
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82) 
MARY MEADE. Chicago Daily Tribune (1872-1963). Chicago, Ill.: Jul 28, 1951. 
p. A3 (1 page) 
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I believe that the peppery sauced eggs known as "eggs in hell" or "eggs in 
purgatory" are of Mexican origin. "Hush puppies," Texas "braggin' bread," and 
"Wear Willie cake" are pure United States,...
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_Adobe and Cactus on the Cheap in Tucson; Amid Tucson's Cactus _ 
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Type=PQD&RQT=309&VName=HNP&TS=1157241862&clientId=65882) 
By SUSAN SPANO. New York Times (1857-Current file). New York, N.Y.: Jan 21, 
1996. p. XX6 (2 pages) 
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"Eggs in Hell" (with green chilies, hot salsa and pinto beans) were on the 
menu, but I chose the "Boom-Boom" ($4.75), which consisted of scrambled eggs, 
roasted Potatoes, and jack cheese on a toasted baguette.
(Hotel Congress' Cup Cafe, Tucson, Arizona -- ed.)
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_The Pop Culture Cantina_ (http://popculturecantina.blogspot.com/) 
Learn how to make delectable Mexican dishes like Ox Eyes (eggs fried in oil), 
Barbacoa (cow’s head), Lengua (beef tongue), Fried Oyster Nachos and Café de ...
popculturecantina.blogspot.com/ - 61k - _Cached_ 
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cache:KIknUm-dFskJ:popculturecantina.blogspot.com/+"ox+eyes"+eggs&hl=en&gl=us&ct=clnk&cd=21&ie=UTF-8) - _Similar pages_ 
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_Jewlicious » The REAL Shakshuka_ 
(http://www.jewlicious.com/index.php?p=374) 
Quite a resemblance to the Tex-Mex dish “Ox Eyes” or “Eggs in Hell”, but 
then again, there WOULD be a heavy Sephardi influence on Tex-Mex cooking, ...
www.jewlicious.com/index.php?p=374 - 47k - _Cached_ 
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_California Rancho Cooking: Mexican and Californian Recipes - Page 11_ 
(http://books.google.com/books?vid=ISBN1570613842&id=BZYxKh4Kx-QC&pg=PA11&lpg=PA11&d
q="ox+eyes"+eggs&ie=ISO-8859-1&sig=yzuxC82Sf7D1lCSX5YLZuZgeUrU) 
by Jacqueline Higuera McMahan - Cooking - 2003 - 238 pages
... [ox eyes or eggs in chile] ojos de buey Carretas, or carts pulled by 
oxen, 
... this dish of eggs poached in Red Chile Sauce after their beloved oxen. 
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Limited preview - _Table of Contents_ 
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0gtl4AJETebSx63L4aBIuW3ps) - _Index_ 
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IxBqWVN8JXDkiWry7i6Ib-FIkM) - _About this book_ 
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