Southern Cooking Recipes

Chrysanthemum Omelettes Recipe

 

cooking time: 1 minute per 'chrysanthemum'

 

Ingredients

4 eggs

pinch salt

pinch Ve-Tsin

2 tablespoons lard

strip of red pimento
 

Method

 

1. Beat the eggs lightly, season with salt and Ve-Tsin.
2. Heat omelets pan, grease lightly and, use just enough egg mixture to make a film on the bottom

   of the pan.
3. Fry these paper-thin pancake omelettes, until all the mixture is used up.
4. Lift the omelettes from the, pan to a cutting board and cut into 3-inch by 6-inch strips.
5. Fold over once, make 1-inch incisions down- wards through the double thickness.
6. Roll into a cylinder and open out the cut to form a `chrysanthemum'.
7. Stamp out a small circle of red pimento (or tomato) and put in the centre of each flower.

Note:
This tastes good and looks very decorative with a green salad.

 

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