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- From: mgh@mtunh (Marcus G. Hand)
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- Subject: RECIPE: Omelet Arnold Bennett
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- Date: 4 Jul 86 03:35:44 GMT
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- .RH MOD.RECIPES-SOURCE OMELET-1 M "5 Apr 86" 1986
- .RZ "OMELET ARNOLD BENNETT" "Omelet with cream and smoked fish filling"
- In the vein (sic) of artery cloggers, this recipe must
- be one of the highest-cholesterol dishes I've come across in years.
- It may sound unconventional, but delicious it most certainly is.
- I came upon it in the Bistro under the
- Everyman Theatre in Liverpool, circa 1978.
- The following is my reconstruction of the dish I had there.
- .IH "Serves 2"
- .IG "6" "large eggs"
- (the fresher the better)
- .IG "6 oz" "smoked haddock" "180 g"
- (or other smoked large-flaked white fish)
- .IG "2 oz" "finely grated sharp cheddar" "60 g"
- (the light yellow New York/Vermont style is best)
- .IG "2/3 cup" "heavy cream" "175 ml"
- .IG "a little" "butter"
- .IG "pinch" "dill"
- .IG "pinch" "salt and pepper"
- .PH
- .SK 1
- Prepare the fish by poaching it lightly (5 minutess) and then
- breaking it up into nice large flakes.
- .SK 2
- Whip the cream and fold in the grated cheese. Add the fish and set aside.
- .SK 3
- The remaining steps are a basic omelet recipe and can be
- used with any filling.
- Crack the eggs, beat them up with the dill, salt and pepper.
- .SK 4
- Meanwhile heat a frying pan.
- Add a knob of butter and let it melt.
- When it has stopped frothing and is just beginning to go brown...
- .SK 5
- Slop in half the egg mixture and immediately return to the heat
- and stir the eggs two or three times;
- then with a fork draw the edges into the middle
- and allow the un-solidified egg to run onto the exposed pan.
- .SK 6
- While it is still a mixture of fluffy and runny,
- add half of the haddock and cream mixture.
- Continue to cook until underside begins to turn golden brown.
- .SK 7
- Fold over and serve on a hot plate with bread and butter immediately.
- (You can't leave it in the oven for ten minutes while you do another!)
- While it is being eaten, cook the second omelet.
- .NX
- My guess, although I haven't yet tried, is that
- the smoked haddock could be substituted with any large-flaked
- smoked white fish, like cod perhaps.
- The important point is that it should not have an overpowering flavour.
- I bought mine in a Scottish specialty shop in Kearny, NJ.
- Also,
- you should grate the cheese as finely as possible so that it blends
- smoothly with the cream.
- .PP
- Now a diatribe on omelet pans.
- I have always been most successful with a small thin tinned-copper
- omelet pan (which loses its heat and reheats very quickly),
- and a heavy cast iron skillet,
- which maintains an even hot temperature (and doesn't need to
- be reheated after adding the egg mixture).
- Aluminum and stainless steel pans tend to cool down too much and then take
- too long to reheat which results in a dry leathery omelet.
- (But, there again, you may like 'em like that.)
- .SH RATING
- .I Difficulty:
- easy to moderate.
- .I Time:
- 15 minutes.
- .I Precision:
- measuring spoils the fun.
- .WR
- Marcus G Hand
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