Definitions
from The Century Dictionary.
- noun A kitchen utensil for removing omelets or fried eggs from a pan.
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Examples
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Have ready hot buttered toast, remove the eggs from the water with an egg-slice, and slip them on the toast.
Dr. Allinson's cookery book Comprising many valuable vegetarian recipes
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When they are set fairly firm take them out with an egg-slice, using the left hand as before, and trim them with the right.
Cassell's Vegetarian Cookery A Manual of Cheap and Wholesome Diet A. G. Payne 1867
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Take an egg-slice in the left hand, slide it under each egg separately, so that the yolk gets well into the middle of the slice.
Cassell's Vegetarian Cookery A Manual of Cheap and Wholesome Diet A. G. Payne 1867
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When the whole is set, as it will quickly do, slide off the omelet from the frying-pan on to a hot dish with an egg-slice, and serve.
Cassell's Vegetarian Cookery A Manual of Cheap and Wholesome Diet A. G. Payne 1867
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Slide off the omelet on to a hot dish with an egg-slice.
Cassell's Vegetarian Cookery A Manual of Cheap and Wholesome Diet A. G. Payne 1867
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Stew or bake the tomatoes till they are tender, and then take them out carefully with an egg-slice, and serve them surrounded with fried parsley.
Cassell's Vegetarian Cookery A Manual of Cheap and Wholesome Diet A. G. Payne 1867
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Now take them out carefully with an egg-slice, and place them on a dish -- a silver dish is best for the purpose-and place some nice, crisp, fried parsley round the edge.
Cassell's Vegetarian Cookery A Manual of Cheap and Wholesome Diet A. G. Payne 1867
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Take them out carefully with an egg-slice, and trim off all the ragged edges from the white, which should thinly cover the yolk.
Directions for Cookery, in its Various Branches Eliza Leslie 1822
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