Omelet with Jam
Origin: Saint Petersburg, Russia
Source: Elena Molokhovets (Елена Молоховец), 1901
Ingredients
- 12 eggs
- 4 tbsp fine sugar
- 1/2 lemon lemon zest
- 2 seeds cardamom
- 1/8 funt butter
- 1 glass thick jam
- sauce or sabayon (No. 490)
Instructions
- For each batch: grind 6 yolks nearly white with 2 spoons sugar, add lemon zest or cardamom, fold in 6 whipped whites.
- Melt 1/2 spoon butter on a pan, pour in the mix, bake 8 minutes in a hot oven.
- Turn out, spread 1/2 glass thick jam (raspberry or black currant), roll into a tube.
- Repeat with the second 6 eggs; warm both together ~5 minutes in the oven.
- Cut on the slant, dust with sugar; optionally pour over sabayon (No. 490).