Christmas Omelette

Alfred Suzanne, 1904, La Cuisine et Pâtisserie Anglaise et Américaine¹¹²

The words ‘mincemeat omelette’ tend to conjure up a vision of Fanny Cradock in an evening gown, and she did, indeed, attempt to popularise it in the 1970s. But Cradock drew a great deal on the past, and her mincemeat omelette is merely a muted version of this, published seventy years before. (Remarkably, she