Except for her delicious parsley-and-onion eggs, my mother usually favored a plain omelet. Nothing but beaten eggs cooked in butter until slightly brown, then flipped and cooked some more until mottled on the other side.
Clearly, this was a culinary failure by the standards of today’s celebrity chefs, who seem to like their omelets as soft and soupy as chowder.
But here’s the real twist: Mom always topped her plain omelet with a generous sprinkle of sugar. She said that’s how her mother ate eggs, so it was obviously a Dikranagerdsi thing.
I have no idea how her Kharpertsi father ate eggs, or if he ate eggs at all. But my father, who was born in Dikranagerd, like his eggs over medium — and he said his father ate them with hot peppers.
So, who knows?
I do know that Mom and her Dikranagerdsi aunts also put sugar on cheese borags and ate them as dessert.
Does any of this ring a bell?
I wonder if any other Armenians like to sweeten their eggs or any other dishes that most leave savory?
If it’s an egg, does that mean it’s breakfast?
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My mother's family liked to serve their plain omelet over garlic yogurt in the summer. Supposed to be very refreshing. No sugar, though.
Sugar on eggs is a favorite of Musa Daghtsis, too. Cookbook author, Jack Hachigian, provided a recipe for "Ajik", a dessert omelet favored by folks of that region: http://thearmeniankitchen.com/2009/04/were-all-connected-to-musa-dagh.html
Sugar sounds good to me. I want to try it.
Traditional Dikranagerdtsi method of eating sweet eggs is to fry them in grape molasses or dips (from Arabic). The name is Dipsov Dabag.