This week I thought I would post about the Deviled Eggs I made for Easter. And since these are from the Nancy Drew Cookbook, there is mystery meat involved. Because you can’t have Nancy Drew without a mystery.
Here are Savory Deviled Eggs and Double Deviled Eggs!
AuthorRetroRuth
From The Nancy Drew Cookbook, Clues To Good Cooking, by Carolyn Keene, 1974
Tested Recipe!
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Carefully cut eggs into halves lengthwise and remove yolks.
Mash yolks or force through a sieve. Add vinegar, seasonings, add-ins, and enough mayonnaise to moisten.
Pile yolk mixture in the halves of egg white; sprinkle with paprika.
Ingredients
Directions
Carefully cut eggs into halves lengthwise and remove yolks.
Mash yolks or force through a sieve. Add vinegar, seasonings, add-ins, and enough mayonnaise to moisten.
Pile yolk mixture in the halves of egg white; sprinkle with paprika.
Notes
Oh my goodness, when I saw there was a Nancy Drew cookbook, I almost cried. I love Nancy Drew. Love! Those books were some of the first books (along with Betsy & Tacey) to introduce me to the fact that books could be set in another time period. I used to run my fingers over the illustrations in my vintage Nancy Drew books and think how pretty their clothes were and how interesting their hair was. For an 80’s girl, 1930’s style was very different and very fun.
On Easter, I was standing in my kitchen, surrounded by cartons of dyed hard-boiled eggs, and I turned to my mother-in-law and said:
“Do you have a good recipe for deviled eggs?”
She rolled her eyes. “How do you not have a recipe? You have way more recipes than I do.”
And she was right. In fact, I have loads of stuff just sitting in my office dying to see the light of day. So I waded through some of my recent additions to my cookbook collection (Thank you to reader Old And Grumpy! We love everything!) and found the Nancy Drew Cookbook. I looked for a deviled egg recipe, and found just what I wanted. The recipe even had one of those, “cover all the bases” lists where they list tons of extra mix-ins. None of them looked too crazy, but then I saw “deviled ham” and decided that I wanted to double devil some eggs.
But since I wasn’t sure how they would turn out, and Alex really doesn’t like deviled ham, I decided to make a simpler recipe to start, then add in as I went.
So the extras here are parsley and some onion powder.
And then adding deviled ham to half. Which I am officially dubbing “Double Deviled Eggs”.
“I dub thee Sir Double Egg.”
“That’s enough. Just put the paprika on.”
“You have no sense of humor.”
“Yeah, Dad,” Alex piped up, “You’re a stick in the mud!”
“Where did you learn that from?”
“I heard you say it to Mom yesterday.”
There! Deviled and double deviled and done.
“Don’t look so sad. They can’t be bad.”
“They aren’t. But these ham ones just taste like deviled ham.”
The Verdict: Powerful Ham
From The Tasting Notes –
The Savory eggs were really good. A solid recipe that tasted like deviled eggs should. The Double Deviled tasted like creamy, strong….deviled ham. I am pretty sure that a little deviled ham goes a long way, so I may have put in too much. If you are going to make these for whatever reason, make sure you add just a bit of deviled ham at first, then add more as you need it from there. That being said, both eggs were good and all of them were devoured by the end of the meal. So, Nancy Drew’s deviled eggs win the day.
And she would have gotten away with it too, if it hadn’t been for that pesky Tom.
Great post! What an awesome cookbook to have!
OMG, I remember making that recipe from that book when it was new. (I feel old.) I was a Nancy Drew nut when I was a kid, so for a very young birthday I got a lot of Nancy-adjacent stuff, including the cookbook. I think it’s still in the basement somewhere…
I.LOVE deviled eggs, AND deviled ham! I often use deviled ham, buffalo chicken salad or guacamole to switch things up!
Great post.
Any chance we could get a post on those “Deviled Eggs in Aspic” or at least a picture of what they look like from the book?
Always makes me happy to find a fellow fan of the Betsy-Tacy books! I loved those books so much I named one of my daughters, Tacy! The deviled eggs look delish…Thanks for sharing another great recipe!
I was an Alfred Hitchcock and the Three Investigators gal, myself. However, a Nancy Drew cookbook might convert me. 🙂 Both the single and double deviled eggs look wonderful!
Oh my goodness. I collect old Nancy Drew books, those were the first books I collected. I, too, own the Nancy Drew Cookbook. I remember making the fortune cookies a few times (had some trouble with them though, they got too sticky).
Now my love of Nancy Drew and my love of vintage cookbooks have collided!
I too owned the Nancy Drew cookbook when I was a kid. It was actually how I learned how to cook along with my Easy Bake oven. I haven’t thought about this cookbook in years. I need a new copy.
I still have my copy of this cookbook with the paper clips my beloved Grandma used to mark some recipes.