2 tablespoons olive oil
1 tablespoons chopped onion
1 small bay leaf
3 eggs
1/2 can tomatoes
1 teaspoon salt
1 teaspoon sugar
1 dash paprika

Wafers

Cook onion in olive oil until brown.

Add tomatoes, bay leaf, salt, sugar and paprika.

Cook for 15 minutes, remove bay leaf and add beaten eggs.

As eggs begin to harden, break them up with a fork.

Serve on toasted wafers.

This recipe was first published in the cookbook entitled, "Specialita Culinarie Italiane 137 Tested Recipes of Famous Italian Foods, Sold for the benefit of North Bennet's Industrial Training & Social Service Work in the North End of Boston." It was published in Boston, Ma. in 1937. The entire cookbook is available on line for free at "pds.lib.harvard.edu/pds/view." Image -- Vincent Van Gogh: La nuit etoilee toile Saint Remy, 1889.

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