An egg broken into a cup of tea, prescribed as more supporting than tea alone.
An egg broken into a cup of tea, or beaten and mixed with a basin of milk, makes a breakfast more supporting than tea solely. An egg divided, and the yolk and white beaten separately, then mixed with a glassful of wine, will afford two very wholesome draughts, and prove lighter than when taken together.
Consolidated Library of Modern Cooking and Household Recipes, 1905. Public domain; transcription unaltered.
Nothing here brings the egg anywhere near a safe temperature. A cup of tea poured over a raw egg warms it; it does not cook it, and the milk version is colder still.
The intended drinker is the worst possible candidate. This sits in the invalid-cookery tradition, aimed at people whose immune systems are already occupied.
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