Sweet Omelet

Ingredients

• eight eggs
• a little finely chopped lemon peel
• a little castor sugar
• a good-sized piece of butter
• sprinkle castor sugar over
• any melted preserve poured over
• flavoured with creme de menthe
• thick sour milk whipped to a foam

Method

1. 1

   Beat the eggs and mix in lemon peel and sugar.

2. 2

   Melt butter in a frying pan, pour in the eggs, and fry until light brown on both sides.

3. 3

   Score the omelet, sprinkle with sugar, and serve with melted preserve or whipped sour milk.

As published

This recipe was extracted from Banquets of the nations (1911) by Robert H. Christie, page 43. The excerpt below is the record exactly as published.

Sweet Omelet.) Beat up eight eggs and add a little finely chopped lemon peel and a little castor sugar. Melt a good-sized piece of butter in a frying pan, or omelet pan, pour the beaten egg in, and fry both sides a light brown. Have ready a hot dish well sprinkled with castor sugar, score the omelet in lines like a herring-bone by holding a red- hot poker close to it ; dish, sprinkle castor sugar over, and serve with any melted preserve poured over, flavoured with creme de menthe, or with thick sour milk whipped to a foam

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