It can be challenging to make an omelet. I often struggle to successfully fold them. Here are directions in a 1925 home economics textbook for folding an omelet:
To Fold an Omelet
Run a spatula underneath the omelet to loosen it. Make a slight incision with a knife through the middle of the omelet at right angles to the handle of the pan, and fold the omelet over upon itself away from the handle of the pan. Grasp the handle of the pan in the right hand, placing the back of the hand underneath with the thumb pointing away from you. then turn the omelet upon a platter (see Figure 40).
School and Home Cooking by Carlotta C. Greer (1925)
I guess some things never change.
Omelets have been popular for a long time. 🙂
And basically, so has how you make them!
That seem hard. I just fold it over with my spatula. Cooking spray has also made a lot things easier.
Similarly to you, I didn’t think that the directions seemed very clear.
The cook looks like she is wearing a nurse uniform from a slightly earlier time period.
I guess she’s wearing a white apron and a dress with white cuffs. Since I got this from a home economics textbook, I’m guessing that she’s supposed to look like a home economics teacher, but the outfit does look really strange.
It does look strange to my modern eyes.
If I read these directions, I’d probably never make an omelet.
I agree. The directions seem unduly complicated and confusing. I’m left-handed and the directions lost me when they indicated what should be done with the right hand.
Oh man!
Haha I’m with Dorothy …I probably wouldn’t ever make an omelet again either 🙂 its interesting the differences in preparation and cooking though 🙂
I often think about how to describe various cooking processes, so it’s fun to see how someone else described how to make an omelet – though she didn’t do it in an easy-to-understand way.
No she didn’t not at all but as you say Sheryl its fun to see various cooking methods and how they have evolved over time 🙂
I can roll an omelet on a flat griddle but in a skillet I just mix all the fillings together and make a scramble…
I never thought about making an omelet on a flat griddle. I’m going to have to give your method a try. I have always made omelets in a skillet. When an omelet is a failure, I turn it into a scramble. 🙂
Do you know what the slight incision is for? The writer seems to be making a bit of a meal of a fairly everyday – er – meal.
I’m not sure, but I’m guessing that when she said to make an incision that she meant that a line should be scored across the middle, so that the omelet would more easily fold in half.
Ah! Mine flop nicely, and I expect yours do too.
Those are very clear instructions.
She says a lot in a succinct paragraph.
crumbs her directions are very – particular 🙂 I just give it a whirl.
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