Eggs with Celery.

Boil for fifteen minutes, in a quart of white broth (No. 101 ), two
heads of well-washed and neatly pared, sound celery. Remove it
from the broth; then cut it up in one-inch-length pieces, and return
it to the pan with the broth in which it was first boiled, leaving it on
the hot stove. Season with one pinch of salt and the third of a pinch
of white pepper. Reduce to three-quarters (which will require ten
minutes). Add a gill of hot bechamel sauce (No. 108), let come to
a boil. Poach twelve fresh eggs exactly as in No. i, neatly arrange
them on a hot dish, crown-like. Pour the celery sauce right in the
centre, and serve very hot.