For even if there are families who have dinner in the evening - a hot there course meal you will still find that by your standards it´s a meager (nevýdatné) meal of meat and boiled vegetables and only a few tiny potatoes or chips, but no dumplings! Now we must add that where it is customary to have high tea (výdatný olovrant) at five or six, then the only thing you may expect that day is bread and butter or cheese and biscuits and a coffee or some milk as a nightcap.

Omelet:

Ingredients: 2 egg whites, 1 whole egg, 2 tablespoon cold water, dash (ątipka) of salt dash of tabasco sauce, 1 tablespoon fat (oil).

Beat eggs, water and seasonings (korenie) with a fork (vidlička) until foamy (pena). Place (poloľ) omelet pan (panvica) over medium heat (oheň). Add fat (oil). Pour (nalej) egg mixture in quickly. With one hand move pan back and forth. When omelet is almost cooked, fold it (otoč) over and roll out onto plate. You may add any of these fillings (plnky) to the omelet just before folding: mushrooms, tomato sauce, low-fat cheese, any green vegetables or ham. Yield: /?/ one serving.

Curried lamb with rice

Ingredients: 1 kg lamb leg, 3 tomatoes, 4 small onions, 30 grams butter, 1 tbsp curry powder, pinch of sugar, salt and pepper, 1 chicken bouillon cube.

Cut the meat into small cubes. Peel and slice the onions and tomatoes. Fry onion, meat and tomatoes in heated butter until golden brown. Stir in sugar, salt and add the curry powder. Add l hot water in which a chicken bouillon cube has

been dissolved. Cover pan and lower heat. Simmer for about 1 hours. Serve with boiled rice. Sprinkle with chopped row peppers. Put curried lamb in the middle of the dish and garnish with sprigs of parsley. Use rice to make a border for the dish of curry.

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