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Omelette, Bachelor's

INGREDI- ENTS for dish for 2 persons.-2 or 3 eggs, 2 oz. of butter, 1 teaspoonful of flour, teacupful of milk. AVERAGE COST, 5d. Make a thin cream of the flour and milk; then beat up the eggs, mix all together, and add a pinch of salt and a few grains of cayenne. Melt the butter in a small frying-pan, and when very hot pour in the batter. Let the pan remain for a few minutes over a clear fire; then sprinkle upon the omelette some chopped herbs and a few shreds of onion; double the omelette dexterously, and shake it out of the pan on to a hot dish. A simple sweet omelette can | be made by the same process, substituting sugar or preserve for the chopped herbs.

TIME.-2 minutes.

SEASONABLE at any time.