My very best quiche
6 Servings
Ingredients
| Quantity | Ingredient | |
|---|---|---|
| 1 | tablespoon | Butter |
| 1 | (9 inch) pie shell; unbaked | |
| 6 | slices | Bacon |
| ½ | small | Onion; diced |
| 5 | Eggs; beaten | |
| ½ | can | (5.33-oz) Pet evaporated milk |
| 2 | cups | Grated Swiss cheese |
| 1 | can | (4.5-oz) sliced mushrooms; drained |
| 1 | tablespoon | Flour |
| ¼ | teaspoon | Salt |
| Pepper to taste | ||
| ¼ | teaspoon | Marjoram |
| ¼ | teaspoon | Dried basil |
| ⅛ | teaspoon | Ground cumin |
| ¼ | cup | Grated Parmesan cheese |
| 2 | tablespoons | Butter; melted and browned over a low flame |
Directions
Preheat oven to 450ø. Butter pie shell with 1 Tablespoon butter. Fry bacon and drain on paper towel. Saut‚ onion in bacon grease. Drain. Beat eggs, add milk and Swiss cheese. Mix well. Break bacon into pieces. Add bacon, mushrooms and onions to egg mixture. Sift dry ingredients together and add to egg mixture. Combine well. Pour mixture into unbaked pie shell. Bake for 10 minutes. Cover loosely with foil, reduce heat to 325ø, and bake 25 minutes longer. Drizzle browned butter over top and sprinkle with Parmesan cheese. (Can cool and freese at this point.) Bake 10 minutes more or until knife comes out clean. Cut and serve. Yield: 6 servings.
ALICE LYNN OVERBEY
(MRS. THOMAS L.)
From <Traditions:ATasteoftheGoodLife>, by the Little Rock (AR) Junior League. Downloaded from Glen's MM Recipe Archive, .