The Great British Omelette

Omelettes have been known in Britain since the sixteenth century, and in France many centuries before that. The name derives from the Latin lamella, which means ‘thin plate’, and that’s how the omelette was first cooked, almost in pancake fashion. In Britain it was first known as ‘amulet’.

Making an omelette just involves the setting of eggs with an added flavouring of your choice. It’s not really a cooking process, more of a ‘warming’ to thicken the egg, giving you a set, sc