Tomato Souffle Omelet

Ingredients

• 4 to 6 fresh eggs
• season with salt
• season with pepper
• well-buttered

Method

1. 1

   Whisk the eggs in a basin, season with salt and pepper, and pour into a well-buttered fire-proof souffle dish.

2. 2

   Bake in a fairly hot oven until set and golden brown.

3. 3

   Make an incision in the center and fill with a tomato stew made from peeled and quartered tomatoes tossed in butter, seasoned with salt and paprika.

As published

This recipe was extracted from How to cook vegetables (1911) by Charles Herman Senn, page 94. The excerpt below is the record exactly as published.

Tomato Souffle Omelet. Whisk up 4 to 6 fresh eggs in a basin, season with salt and pepper and pour the eggs into a well-buttered TOMATOES. rot fire-proof souffle dish. Bake in a fairly hot oven till the omelet is set and of a nice golden brown. Make an incision in the centre of the omelet and fill the cavity with a tomato stew, which is made as follows : Peel 3 or 4 small ripe tomatoes ; this is best done by dipping each into hot water for a few seconds. Then cut them into quarters and toss in a little butter over a quick fire. Season with salt and paprika pepper and use as directed. This omelet should be served in the dish or pan in which it is baked. Tomatoes with Mushrooms. For this dish the following ingredients are required : 1 lb. tomatoes, 4 oz. Cracknel biscuits, J gill cream, 2 oz. butter, 1 teaspoonful chopped parsley, a pinch of castor sugar, 1 dessertspoonful liquefied meat glaze or Lemco, 6 to 8 fresh-cut mushrooms, pepper, and salt. Boil the tomatoes in slightly salted water ; strain off the water and rub the tomatoes through a sieve. Soak the biscuits in tepid water or milk, and then pass through a sieve. Mix them with the tomatoes in a stew-pan, add half the butter, the meat glaze or Lemco, the sugar, and enough salt and pepper to taste. Stir until it boils, then add the cream and keep hot. Wash, clean, and drain the mushrooms ; fry them in the remainder of the butter, season with pepper

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