Sweet Omelet

Ingredients

• 3 eggs
• 1 tablespoon jam
• 1 dessertspoon sugar
• 1 good teaspoon butter
• a dessertspoon brandy or kirsch (optional)

Method

1. 1

   Break the eggs, letting the yolks fall into the small pudding basin and emptying the whites into a soup plate.

2. 2

   Beat the whites to a snow, not too stiff.

3. 3

   Well mix the yolks with a fork and add the powdered sugar.

4. 4

   Lastly put in the beaten up whites.

5. 5

   Melt the butter in the small omelet pan; when quite hot and singing pour in the eggs and treat them like you would for a plain omelet.

6. 6

   When done, slide onto a hot dish, put the jam in the middle, fold the omelet and serve very hot sprinkled with a little sugar.

Nutrition per serving

As published

This recipe was extracted from Practical West African cookery (1910) by S. Leith-Ross, page 65. The excerpt below is the record exactly as published.

Sweet Omelet. (I). 3 eggs. 1 tablespoon jam. 1 dessertspoon sugar. 1 good teaspoon butter

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