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Cape
Cod
Recipes
Old and New
Breakfast
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Asparagus Omelet
2 tbsp. butter
2 tbsp. flour
1 c. milk
3/4 tsp. salt
1/4 tsp. pepper
6 eggs
Asparagus
Melt the butter and add flour. When blended together and
bubbling, add the milk gradually, stirring constantly. Cook until the
sauce is smooth and thickened. Season with 1/2 teaspoon salt and 1/8
teaspoon pepper.
Separate
the eggs, mix the yolks, 1/4 cup of sauce, 1/4 teaspoon salt and 1/8
teaspoon pepper and beat until thick. Beat egg whites until stiff and
fold into egg yolks.
Grease
sides and bottom of omelet pan. Pour in mixture and cook until lightly
browned. Bake at 300 until omelet is cooked. Remove to a platter.
Garnish with asparagus and pour remaining white sauce around omelet.
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Cape
Cod Has long been famous for it's asparagas fields. When I was growing
up we had them growing wild in the back field. My grandfather used to
raise and sell them, on Lilac farm, another item he would raise in the
greenhouses and sell. And they were sooo good!
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