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Omelet with
Cheese.—Proceed as if making an ordinary omelet,
with four ounces of butter. Add to the six well beaten-up
eggs about four ounces of grated Parmesan cheese; a small
quantity of cream will be found a great improvement to this
omelet. A little pepper and salt must, of course, be added
as well.
Potato Omelet.—Mix
three ounces of a floury potato with six eggs, a little
pepper and salt, and half a pint of milk, and make the milk
boil and then stand for a couple of minutes before it is
mixed with the eggs; pour this mixture into three or four
ounces of butter, and proceed as in making an ordinary
omelet.
Potato Omelet,
Sweet.—Proceed exactly as above, only instead of
adding pepper and salt mix in a brimming tablespoonful of
finely powdered sugar, the juice of a lemon, with half a
grated nutmeg.
Cheese Soufflé.—To
make a small cheese soufflé in a round cake-tin, proceed as
follows:—Make the tin very hot in the oven. Put in about an
ounce of butter, so as to make the tin oily in every part
inside. The tin must be tilted so that the butter pours
round the sides of the tin as well as the bottom. Take two
eggs, separate the yolks from the whites, and beat the
whites to a stiff froth; beat up the two yolks very
thoroughly with a quarter of a pint of milk. Add to this two
tablespoonfuls of grated Parmesan cheese; add this mixture
to the beaten-up whites, and mix the whole carefully
together. Now pour this mixture into the hot buttered tin,
which should be five or six inches deep, and bake it in the
oven. The mixture will rise to five or six times its
original depth. As soon as it is done, run with the soufflé
from the oven door to the dining-room door. However quick
you may be, the soufflé will probably sink an inch on the
way. Some cooks wrap hot flannel on the outside of the tin
to keep up the heat. If you have a folded dinner napkin
round the tin for appearance sake, as is usually the case,
fold the napkin before you make the soufflé, and make the
napkin sufficiently big round that it can be dropped over
the tin in an instant. The napkin should be pinned, and be
quite half an inch in diameter bigger than the width of the
tin. This is to save time. Delay in serving the soufflé is
fatal.
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