Have ready an omelette pan with a good layer of hot fat or butter.

As the omelette soufflée said to the cook.

Omelette soufflé.

Antoine, mon enfant, we know thee to be a fellow of incontestible veracity, and thy list is magnificent; but we will be content with a vol-au-vent of fish, a bifteck aux pommes frites, an omelette sucrée, and a bottle of thy 1840 Bordeaux with the yellow seal.