the Girl Scout variation on the egg sammich theme: Egg in a Frame.
make a hole in the center of a slice of bread. again, white kleenex type preferred. (either pick it out with your fingers, or cut it out with a biscuit cutter - if the latter, you can butter & toast both sides of the "hole", too) melt some butter on cooking surface* and place "frame" in melted butter. break egg into hole in "frame". butter the exposed side of the bread. flip when egg is sufficiently set, to toast other side of bread & cook top of egg.
*traditionally cooked at camp, on a personal cookstove made of an upended 3-lb coffee can, with holes punched around the top & bottom for air, using a can opener (the triangular kind you used to need for beer cans & still use for condensed milk), and fired by a burner made of a tuna can filled with a tight coil of corrugated cardboard which has been saturated with melted paraffin (as in wax, not the UK paraffin, which is kerosene or something).
i suspect Girl Scouts don't/won't do this sort of thing anymore, due both to liability issues regarding the melted wax/open flames, and to the fact that the organization seems, sadly, to have degenerated from its original empowerment of young women into training them to be bowheads. i had hoped that was a TX phenomenon, but see much the same thing here in IL. tragic, really. Girl Scouts did a lot to make me the woman i turned out to be.
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make a hole in the center of a slice of bread. again, white kleenex type preferred.
(either pick it out with your fingers, or cut it out with a biscuit cutter - if the latter,
you can butter & toast both sides of the "hole", too)
melt some butter on cooking surface* and place "frame" in melted butter.
break egg into hole in "frame".
butter the exposed side of the bread.
flip when egg is sufficiently set, to toast other side of bread & cook top of egg.
*traditionally cooked at camp, on a personal cookstove made of an upended
3-lb coffee can, with holes punched around the top & bottom for air, using a
can opener (the triangular kind you used to need for beer cans & still use for
condensed milk), and fired by a burner made of a tuna can filled with a tight
coil of corrugated cardboard which has been saturated with melted paraffin
(as in wax, not the UK paraffin, which is kerosene or something).
i suspect Girl Scouts don't/won't do this sort of thing anymore, due both to
liability issues regarding the melted wax/open flames, and to the fact that
the organization seems, sadly, to have degenerated from its original empowerment
of young women into training them to be bowheads. i had hoped that was a TX
phenomenon, but see much the same thing here in IL. tragic, really. Girl Scouts
did a lot to make me the woman i turned out to be.