Home › The World's Kitchen › Fresh Strawberry Omelette

Fresh Strawberry Omelette

Pick off the stems, carefully wash and thoroughly drain a pint of fresh, ripe strawberries. Place in a bowl with two ounces powdered sugar, half a teaspoon vanilla essence, a teaspoon rum and two tablespoons water, mix well in the seasoning and let infuse for fifteen minutes. Crack eight fresh eggs in a bowl, add a half gill cream, two saltspoons salt, two tablespoons sugar and sharply beat up with fork for two minutes. Heat half an ounce butter in a frying pan, drop in eggs, mix with fork for two minutes, let rest half minute; place one-fourth of the strawberries in centre of omelette, fold up the two opposite sides to join in centre, let rest for half minute only. Turn it on a hot dish, sprinkle two tablespoons sugar over the omelette, glaze surface with a red iron, arrange balance of the strawberries and juice around omelette and serve.