Lobster Omelette

Origin: Chicago, Illinois

Source: Sara Bosse and Onoto Watanna (Winnifred Eaton), 1914

Ingredients

Instructions

  1. Heat a tablespoonful of peanut oil in a small frying pan.
  2. Beat two eggs with a tablespoonful of cold water.
  3. Pour half the beaten eggs into the hot oil.
  4. Quickly add the remaining half of the beaten eggs and the chopped cooked lobster meat.
  5. Cook slowly for five minutes.
  6. Slip the omelette from the pan without breaking it.
  7. Repeat to make two or three more omelettes in the same manner, using either one pan sequentially or several small pans cooking simultaneously.
  8. Stack the finished omelettes on top of one another on a platter heated in hot water.

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