A Nice Omelet with Green Onion
A historical recipe from La cuisine creole, by Lafcadio Hearn (1885).
A historical recipe
La cuisine creole: a collection of culinary recipes from leading chefs and noted Creole housewives, who have made New Orleans famous for its cuisine, by Lafcadio Hearn (1885). Project Gutenberg eBook #75027.
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Also printed in: La cuisine creole (1885).
Source and licence
From La cuisine creole, by Lafcadio Hearn (1885). Digitised by Project Gutenberg, eBook #75027 (https://www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/75027). Public domain in the USA; its status may differ elsewhere.
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Ingredients
Method
- Beat the whites and yolks of six eggs separately, put in a tablespoonful of butter, a spoonful of chopped green onion and one of fine-cut parsley, and mix with the eggs;
- then put it into a thick-bottomed pan, in which you have placed a half cup of butter.
- Roll it up as it cooks, and tilt the pan on one side, that the omelet may cook on the other side;
- roll up again as it cooks.
- Do not let it get hard and brown, but keep it soft.
- Keep on rolling as well as you can;
- a little practice will make you perfect.
- When the eggs cook, butter, pepper and salt them, and turn on a dish.