Omelette au Confiture (Jam Omelette)

Ingredients

• five eggs
• a teaspoonful of powdered sugar
• a saltspoonful of salt
• two tablespoonfuls of milk
• two ounces of butter
• some jam, either strawberry, currant, or raspberry

Method

1. 1

   Beat the eggs and add sugar, salt, and milk.

2. 2

   Melt butter in a frying pan, pour in the egg mixture, and stir until set.

3. 3

   Brown one side, slide onto a hot dish, place jam in the center, fold edges over, and serve immediately.

As published

This recipe was extracted from The household gas cookery book (1900) by Helen Edden, page 83. The excerpt below is the record exactly as published.

Omelette au Confiture (Jam Cmeletteh—B eat well five egg's in a basin, and add a teaspoonful of powdered sugar, a saltspoonful of salt, and two tablespoonfuls of milk. Stir this altogether. Dissolve two ounces of butter in a clean enamelled frying-pan; as soon as it is melted and very hot, pour in the contents of the basin, and keep stirring the eggs until somewhat set. Let them remain until the omelette is browned on the one side, and then slide it off on to a hot dish. Carefully place along the centre of the omelette some jam, either strawberry, currant, or raspberry

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