Omelette Souffle
Origin: Tidewater Virginia
Source: Mary Randolph, 1824
Ingredients
- 6 eggs
- 4 tablespoons powdered sugar
- lemon peel
- 1/4 pound butter
- powdered sugar
Instructions
- Break six eggs, beat the yelks and whites separately till very light, then mix them.
- Add four table spoonsful of powdered sugar and a little grated lemon peel.
- Put a quarter of a pound of butter in a pan;
- when melted, pour in the eggs and stir them.
- When they have absorbed the butter, turn it on a plate previously buttered.
- Sprinkle some powdered sugar, set it in a hot Dutch oven, and when a little brown, serve it up for a desert.