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Spanish Omelet

A historical recipe from I Go A-Marketing, by Henrietta Sowle (1900).

A historical recipe

I Go A-Marketing, by Henrietta Sowle (1900). Project Gutenberg eBook #55566.

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 I Go A-Marketing, by Henrietta Sowle (1900). Digitised by Project Gutenberg, eBook #55566 (https://www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/55566). Public domain in the USA; its status may differ elsewhere.

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Spain. Associated with Spain by a demonym leading its title: Spanish (confidence 0.55). "Associated with" means only that the evidence named here links this recipe to that place. A recipe isn't labelled as representing an entire country because a source associates it with one, and regional origins are kept where the source gives them.

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Method

  1. You will find in your hunts for Spanish omelet recipes that they will turn up as thick as bees in a hive, after which you will let the different directions for this savory dish foment in your mind till you get what seems to be the best from each and turn out one that is your very own, and entitled to be known to your friends as "Spanish omelet à la Madame Featherstonaugh"--or whatever name has the honor to belong to you.
  2. My recipe you shall have till you get one of your own, however.
  3. To begin with, have a rich tomato purée;
  4. to this you add chopped pimentos or sweet Spanish peppers con amore, then a bit of fried chopped onion, a few mushrooms, also cooked, and diced cold cooked tongue or ham, preferably tongue.
  5. Take any liberties with it that you like, pray.
  6. Don't think you must follow it to the letter.
  7. I rarely do, to be candid with you.
  8. I have used cold chicken, cold duck, and also cold goose, when the larder has been bereft of ham or tongue;
  9. and not one of my household dared to say anything shady about it.