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Omelet with Green Peas

A historical recipe from Many Ways for Cooking Eggs, by S. T. Rorer.

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A historical recipe

Many Ways for Cooking Eggs, by S. T. Rorer. Project Gutenberg eBook #6429.

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

Ingredients 3 ingredients

  1. one pint of cooked peas
  2. a can of peas
  3. a half pint of cream sauce

Method

  1. Make a six-egg omelet.
  2. Have ready one pint of cooked peas, or a can of peas, seasoned with salt, pepper and butter.
  3. Just before folding the omelet put a tablespoonful of peas in the center, fold, and turn out on a heated platter.
  4. Pour the remaining quantity of peas around the omelet, and send at once to the table.
  5. If you like, you may pour over, also, a half pint of cream sauce.

Plating

Cookware for this recipe

  • Frying pan
Source Public domain in the USA
Credit

From Many Ways for Cooking Eggs, by S. T. Rorer. Digitised by Project Gutenberg, eBook #6429 (https://www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/6429). Public domain in the USA; its status may differ elsewhere.

What was changed: As printed, from the book's text; Project Gutenberg's header and licence removed. Ingredient lines were read out of the text by a program. A historical recipe, not current advice.