{"id":1257,"slug":"friar-s-omelette","title":"Friar's Omelette","description":"Friar's Omelette is a traditional Scottish recipe for eggs and apples. However, apple can be substituted by other fruit such as rhubarb, plum (with stones removed), or blackberry.","ingredients_raw":["6 medium cooking apples","4 ounces (125 g / 1 stick) butter plus butter for greasing a baking dish","2 ounces (50 g / 4 tablespoons) white sugar","1 ounce (25 g / 1 rounded tablespoon) white sugar for decoration","2 eggs, well beaten","4 ounces (125 g / 1 cup) breadcrumbs","¼ pint (150 ml) water","Squeeze of lemon juice"],"ingredients_norm":["cooking apple","butter plus butter for greasing baking dish","white sugar","white sugar for decoration","egg","breadcrumb","water","squeeze of lemon juice"],"steps":["Peel and core the apples, slice them, and place in a saucepan with the water.","Cook until soft (similar to applesauce), then remove from heat and add butter, sugar and lemon juice; mix well.","While this is cooling, beat the eggs very well. When the apple mixture is cool, mix in the eggs as well.","Butter a deep baking dish and spread the breadcrumbs around it so that they stick to the bottom and the sides, keeping a good amount for the top.","Pour the apple and egg mixture into the dish and cover with a thick layer of breadcrumbs.","Bake in a moderate oven (350°F / 180°C / Gas Mark 4) for about half an hour.","Turn out onto a flat dish and sprinkle with sugar before serving."],"categories":["Egg recipes","Recipes using egg","Recipes using apple","Baked recipes","Breakfast recipes","Recipes for omelettes","Scottish recipes","Recipes using butter","Recipes using white sugar","Recipes using bread crumb","Recipes using lemon juice"],"prep_time_minutes":null,"cook_time_minutes":null,"total_time_minutes":90,"servings":"4","yield_text":null,"difficulty":"medium","source_name":"wikibooks","source_url":"https://en.wikibooks.org/wiki/Cookbook:Friar's_Omelette","source_ref":"4524758","authors_url":"https://en.wikibooks.org/w/index.php?title=Cookbook:Friar's_Omelette&action=history","license":"CC BY-SA 4.0","license_url":"https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/4.0/","extraction_confidence":null,"content_hash":"3743bf8495f2530ad2383d2cecfce27e19a99d6891605941701d3f1474cbca69","created_at":"2026-08-02T14:43:02Z","updated_at":"2026-08-02T17:11:31Z","notice":null,"url":"https://recipecontextprotocol.com/recipes/friar-s-omelette"}