Description:

Lovely Egg/Cheese dish

Source:

Danielle

Serves/Makes:6

Ingredients

• Pastry for 9 inch one crust pie
• 8 slices bacon, crisply cooked and crumbled
• 1 cup (225 ml) shreddec Swiss cheese
• 1/3 cup (80 ml) finely chopped onion
• 4 large eggs
• 2 cups (475 ml) whipping cream
• 1/4 tsp (1 ml) salt
• 1/4 tsp (1 ml) pepper
• 1/8 tsp (1 ml) ground red pepper (cayenne)

Preparation

• Heat oven to 425 degrees (225 C.).
• Prepare pastry. Ease into quiche pan, 9 x 1 1/2 inches or 9 inch pie plate.
• Sprinkle bacon, cheese, and onion in pastry-lined pan.
• Beat eggs slightly, beat in remaining ingredients.
• Pour egg mixture over the bacon/cheese mixture in pan.
• Bake 15 minutes.
• Reduce oven temperture to 300 degrees (150 C.).
• Bake about 30 minutes longer or until knife inserted in center comes out clean.
• Let stand 10 minutes before serving.

Comments

You can add 1 can of mushrooms, drained and 1 jar of pimentos with the bacon for a mushroom quiche. Also another version uses seafood. Substitute 1 cup chopped cooked crabmeat, shrimp, fish sticks, or salmon for the bacon and green onion for the onion. Be sure to pat the crabmeat dry. For a lighter version, use evaporated skim milk for the whipping cream. You can also use any kind of bought pie crust.