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Surprise Omelet “A L’islandaise

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France

Known as a French recipe, with similar versions prepared across other nations.

Ingredients 1 ingredient

  1. a glassful of heated rum

Cook safely

Keep children and pets away from the hob and the oven, and keep oven gloves and a lid within reach.

  • Flambéing. Pour the alcohol off the heat, never straight from the bottle, and light it with a long match, leaning back. Keep a lid close to put the flames out.

Method

  1. Make the cushion of Génoise round instead of oval;
  2. set it on a round dish, and garnish it with some sort of ice, which should be shaped like a truncated cone.
  3. Cover with meringue;
  4. set a small case on the top, made from meringue, as explained under No.
  5. 2471, but round instead of oval;
  6. conceal all but its inside with meringue, decorating the omelet in so doing, and set to brown quickly.
  7. When about to serve, pour a glassful of heated rum into the meringue case and set it alight.

Plating

Cookware for this recipe

  • Frying pan