French Omelet

Ingredients

• One-half cup of boiling milk
• three eggs
• one-half cup of bread crumbs
• salt
• pepper
• thimbleful of butter

Method

1. 1

   Pour boiling milk on bread crumbs.

2. 2

   Separate yolks from whites, beat each yolk into bread and milk as broken, add salt and pepper, and lastly the whites beaten to a stiff froth.

3. 3

   Have frying-pan hot, put in thimbleful of butter, pour in omelet, cook carefully over slow fire, when set and brown on bottom, put in oven for a few minutes to brown on top, then turn carefully in half and send to table.

As published

This recipe was extracted from The New century cook book (1899), page 65. The excerpt below is the record exactly as published.

French Omelet. One-half cup of boiling milk, three eggs, one-half cup of bread crumbs, salt and pepper. Pour boiling milk on bread crumbs. Separate yolks from whites, beat each yolk into bread and milk as broken, add salt and pepper, and lastly the whites beaten to a stiff froth. Have frying-pan hot, put in thimbleful of butter

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