Omelet with Cherry Filling
Origin: Saint Petersburg, Russia
Source: Elena Molokhovets (Елена Молоховец), 1901
Ingredients
- egg yolks
- glass fine sugar
- lemon lemon zest
- spoons melted butter
- glass wheat flour
- egg whites
- glass jam without syrup
- glass cherry syrup
- tsp potato starch (kartofelnaya muka)
Instructions
- Beat 12 yolks with 1/2 glass sugar white, add lemon zest or cinnamon, 3 spoons melted butter, 1/3 glass flour and 12 whipped whites.
- Bake on a hot buttered large pan 10-15 minutes; spread with syrupless cherry/currant jam, roll into a tube, return to oven 5 minutes.
- Cut on the slant, arrange in a garland, dust with sugar.
- Fill the center with cherry syrup thickened with potato starch and folded with 6 whipped whites; dust with sugar and set in the oven briefly.