This section is from the book "The Myrtle Reed Cook Book", by Myrtle Reed. Also available from Amazon: The Myrtle Reed Cook Book.
Prepare Omelet I. As soon as the eggs are in the frying-pan, add a cupful of cooked and 8 drained peas, arranging carefully in the outermost half so that the other portion will fold over it. Finish as usual.
Have ready one cupful of cooked and drained asparagus tips. Prepare according to directions given for Pea Omelet.
Use fresh mushrooms, if possible. Fry, and drain on brown paper. When the eggs are in the frying-pan, spread the mushrooms on the outermost half of the omelet, so that the other portion will fold over it. Finish as usual.
Spread the outermost half of an omelet with tomato sauce, fold, and finish as usual.
Prepare Omelet I, adding half a cupful of grated Parmesan cheese, or dried and grated American cheese, to the egg mixture.
Have ready one cupful of cooked ham, very finely minced. Spread on half of the omelet and fold the other part over it.
One cupful of cooked oysters, minced or not, as preferred. Lay on half of the omelet and fold.
See Oyster Omelet.
One cupful of cooked and shredded shrimps. See Oyster Omelet.
One cupful of minced cooked crab meat. See Oyster Omelet.
One cupful of cooked and shredded lobster. See Oyster Omelet.
One half cupful of stewed and strained tomatoes, or of fresh tomatoes peeled and rubbed through a sieve. Spread on the outermost half of the omelet, sprinkle with salt and pepper, and fold.
One cupful of dried beef, shredded or minced. Cook five minutes in boiling water, drain in a cloth, spread on the outermost half of the omelet, and fold.
Cut the kidneys into inch pieces, fry, drain, and finish as for Mushroom Omelet.
One cupful of cooked chicken livers, cut in small pieces. See Oyster Omelet.
Spread the outer portion of an omelet with cooked sausage meat and fold as usual.
Rub to a paste with melted butter and lemon-juice enough sardines to make half a cupful. Spread thinly on the outer half of an omelet, and fold.
Spread one cupful of grated cheese, Swiss, American, or Parmesan, on the outer portion of an omelet when the eggs are first put in the pan. Cook and fold as usual.
Make a plain omelet. Pour over it rum, kirsch, or brandy, ignite, and send to the table blazing. Serve as soon as the fire has gone out.
Cook a plain omelet in bacon fat instead of in butter and garnish with crisp rashers of bacon.
Fry one cupful of minced bacon until crisp, drain off the fat, spread the bacon on half the omelet, and fold.
 
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