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Baked Omelet

A historical recipe from School and Home Cooking, by Greer, Carlotta C. (Carlotta Cherryholmes) (1920).

A historical recipe

School and Home Cooking, by Greer, Carlotta C. (Carlotta Cherryholmes) (1920). Project Gutenberg eBook #6912.

From an old book: a historical recipe, not current advice. Its methods, additives and storage may be unsafe by today's standards.

Source and licence

From School and Home Cooking, by Greer, Carlotta C. (Carlotta Cherryholmes) (1920). Digitised by Project Gutenberg, eBook #6912 (https://www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/6912). Public domain in the USA; its status may differ elsewhere.

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Ingredients

Method

  1. Prepare a White Sauce Omelet.
  2. Instead of turning it into a frying pan, pour it into an oiled baking-dish.
  3. Bake in a hot oven (375 degrees F.) for 30 to 40 minutes, or until it is "puffed" in appearance and golden brown in color.
  4. Serve at once from the dish in which it was baked.
  5. MODIFICATION OF FOAMY AND WHITE SAUCE OMELETS.--Mix and cook a Foamy or White Sauce Omelet.
  6. As soon as the omelet begins to set, spread it while cooking with finely chopped cooked ham, veal, or chicken.
  7. Continue to cook and then dry, fold, and serve as with the usual omelet.
  8. Cooked peas, asparagus, cauliflower, or flaked fish may be added to the sauce of White Sauce Omelet.
  9. Cheese may be used in place of meat with either omelet.
  10. Foamy Omelet may be varied by using tomato juice instead of milk.
  11. Tomato sauce may be served with either of these omelets.
  12. Sweet Omelet may be made as follows: Add 4 tablespoonfuls of powdered sugar to the Foamy Omelet mixture;
  13. after cooking, spread with softened jelly;
  14. after folding, sprinkle with powdered sugar.
  15. Use 1/2 cupful of jelly for the Foamy Omelet recipe.