Omelette a la Charlotte

Ingredients

• 3 eggs
• 1 lemon
• 2 oz. caster sugar
• 3 oz. flour
• 1/2 gill fresh cream
• 1 tablespoonful orange-flower water
• 2 oz. butter
• apple marmalade

Method

1. 1

   Separate the eggs, beat yolks with sugar, lemon rind, and orange-flower water.

2. 2

   Whisk the whites and mix with flour and yolks.

3. 3

   Whip cream and add to the mixture.

4. 4

   Melt butter in pans, pour in mixture, cook, and finish in the oven for about ten minutes.

5. 5

   Spread with marmalade, roll, dust with sugar, and serve.

As published

This recipe was extracted from The new century cookery book (1901) by Charles Herman Senn, page 450. The excerpt below is the record exactly as published.

Omelette d la Charlotte. — 3 eggs, \ lemon, 2 oz. caster sugar, 3 oz. flour, \ gill fresh cream, \ tablespoonful orange- flower water, 2 oz. butter, apple marmalade

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