This section is from the book "Soyer's Standard Cookery", by Nicolas Soyer. Also available from Amazon: Soyer's Standard Cookery.
Butter some hexagonal molds, and garnish them, Chartreuse fashion, with cut-up, cooked vegetables, varying the shades. Break an egg into each mold; season, and poach in a bain-marie. Turn out the molds upon little round pieces of toast; arrange these in a circle on a dish and pour in their midst a cream sauce finished by means of a Printanier butter with herbs, in the proportion of one ounce of butter to one-quarter pint of sauce.
 
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