Sweet Omelet

Ingredients

• 1 egg yolk
• 1 tbsp. water
• 2 tsp. sugar
• 1 egg white
• %4 tsp. vanilla
• 1 tbsp. apple jelly

Method

1. 1

   Beat the yolk and sugar together until thick and pale in colour, add the vanilla and water.

2. 2

   Add salt to egg white, and whisk until very stiff.

3. 3

   Cut and fold yolk mixture into the white.

4. 4

   Heat butter in omelet pan and run butter round sides of pan, pour in the egg and cook over a low heat.

5. 5

   Raise it from pan occasionally with a broad knife.

6. 6

   When underside is brown, put the omelet pan into a hot oven, on the top shelf, to cook the top surface of omelet.

7. 7

   It is cooked if, when pressed with the finger, no dent remains.

8. 8

   Turn onto a sugared paper, put a tablespoon of warm jelly in the centre and fold in half.

9. 9

   Serve on a hot dish sprinkled with sugar.

Nutrition per serving

As published

This recipe was extracted from Girl's home manual of cookery, home management, home nursing and laundry (1913) by Annie Bessie Juniper, British Columbia. Ministry of Education, page 22. The excerpt below is the record exactly as published.

Sweet Omelet. 1 egg yolk. 1 tbsp. water. 2 tsp. sugar. 1 egg white. '%4 tsp. vanilla. trovesalis 1 tbsp. apple jelly

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