SALMON A LA WALDORF

Marinate salmon steaks for an hour in [Page 284] lemon-juice. Cover with stock, add pepper, salt and minced parsley to season, and simmer slowly until done. Drain, thicken the sauce, add a tablespoonful of butter, and serve separately.

SALMON MOUSSE

Rub half a pound of raw salmon to a smooth paste with water, adding gradually a dozen chopped raw oysters, half a cupful of Tomato Sauce and the yolks of three eggs. When smooth, fold in the stiffly beaten whites, season with salt and pepper, and press through a puree sieve into small buttered moulds. Put into a baking-pan, surround with hot water, and bake for fifteen or twenty minutes in a moderate oven. Unmould and serve with any preferred sauce.

SALMON MOUSSE A LA MARTINOT

Pound to a pulp with a little water, half a pound of raw salmon, and add the well-beaten whites of two eggs. Cook together one tablespoonful each of butter and flour, add a cupful of milk, and cook until thick, stirring constantly. Season with salt, red and white pepper, grated onion, and mushroom essence. Take from the fire, and add the yolks of three eggs beaten smooth with two [Page 285] tablespoonfuls of cream. Cool the sauce, and when cold mix it with the fish. Fold in carefully one cupful of whipped cream and fill a buttered mould with the fish. Put the mould in a pan of hot water and bake in a moderate oven for half an hour.

For the sauce, cook together for ten minutes a tablespoonful each of butter and flour, a teaspoonful each of chopped onion, salt, and sugar, and half a can of tomatoes. Rub through a sieve, and add the yolks of four eggs beaten smooth with a tablespoonful of cream and a grating of nutmeg. Take from the fire and add two tablespoonfuls of butter in small bits. Return to the fire, and add a little lemon-juice or tarragon vinegar. Strain, and add a little whipped cream.

SALMON STEAKS WITH CLARET SAUCE

Put four steaks into a buttered saucepan with salt, pepper, and grated nutmeg to season, add a bunch of parsley, a teaspoonful of mixed sweet herbs, a chopped onion, and two cupfuls of Claret. Cover with a buttered paper, simmer until done, and drain. Strain the sauce, thicken with flour cooked brown in butter, skim, add two tablespoonfuls of butter and the juice of a lemon; pour over the fish and serve.

[Page 286] SALMON MAYONNAISE WITH CUCUMBERS

Steam salmon steaks until tender, remove the skin, and cool. Cover with thinly sliced cucumbers, mask with Mayonnaise, and serve with a border of lettuce leaves and sliced hard-boiled eggs.

CREAMED SALMON ON TOAST

Reheat a cupful of cold flaked salmon, either fresh or canned, in Cream Sauce. Take from the fire, add one egg beaten smooth with half a cupful of cream, pour over buttered toast, and serve.

CURRIED SALMON

Chop a Spanish onion, fry it in butter, and add a tablespoonful of curry powder mixed with a teaspoonful of flour. Add two cupfuls of stock and cook until thick, stirring constantly. Add cold cooked salmon, cut into small pieces, and reheat. Serve in a border of boiled rice.

CHARTREUSE OF SALMON

Wash a cupful of rice in several waters, drain and parboil for five minutes in salted water at a galloping boil. Drain in a colander, [Page 287] return to the saucepan, add a pinch of salt and three cupfuls of milk or stock. Steam until tender, then add three tablespoonfuls of butter melted and mixed with one tablespoonful of curry powder and two tablespoonfuls of lemon-juice. Mix thoroughly and line a two-quart buttered mould with the rice. Fill the center with flaked cooked salmon, seasoned with salt, pepper and lemon-juice, cover with rice, steam for half an hour and serve with Egg Sauce.

FRICASSEE OF SALMON

Cut two pounds of salmon steaks into strips. Put into a saucepan with half a cupful of water, salt and pepper to season, a clove, a blade of mace, a tablespoonful of sugar, a chopped onion, and a heaping teaspoonful of mustard mixed with half a cupful of vinegar. Bring to the boil, add six tomatoes peeled and sliced, a teaspoonful of minced parsley, and a wineglassful of Sherry. Simmer for forty-five minutes and serve either hot or cold.

SALMON WITH EGGS

Steam salmon steaks until tender, cool, and lay upon a platter covered with lettuce leaves. Season with salt, pepper, and lemon-juice and surround with slices of hard-boiled eggs. Mix together a tablespoonful of melted butter, a teaspoonful of made mustard, and [Page 288] salt and pepper to season. Spread over the egg slices and serve.

JELLIED SALMON—I

Simmer salmon steaks in court-bouillon until done. Drain and arrange on a platter. Spread with Mayonnaise, tinted green with spinach juice to which a little dissolved gelatine has been added. Serve cold.

JELLIED SALMON—II

Mix two cupfuls of cold boiled salmon with one tablespoonful of lemon-juice, one teaspoonful of minced parsley, two drops of tabasco sauce and one tablespoonful of granulated gelatine dissolved in cold water. Add it to half a cupful of cooked salad dressing. Wet in cold water one large mould or several small ones, fill with the salmon and put on ice until thoroughly chilled. Serve with sliced cucumbers and Tartar Sauce.

SALMON PIE

Butter a baking-dish and line the sides with a rich biscuit crust. Fill the pan with fresh or canned salmon, seasoned with salt and pepper, lemon-juice, a pinch of mace, and a teaspoonful of onion juice. Spread over the salmon a cupful of boiled lobster which has [Page 289] been seasoned with melted butter and Worcestershire Sauce. Cover with biscuit crust, slit diagonally down the centre, and bake for an hour in a moderate oven.

COLD SALMON PATTIES

Season chopped salmon highly with salt and pepper, grated nutmeg and melted butter. Add the beaten yolk of an egg to bind. Line patty-tins with puff paste or rich pastry, fill with the salmon mixture, cover with the paste, and bake.

PICKLED SALMON—I

Boil large fresh pieces of salmon in salted and acidulated water to cover. Bring to the boil one quart of vinegar, six blades of mace, half a dozen white peppers, half a dozen cloves, a teaspoonful of made mustard, two tablespoonfuls of sugar, and a cupful of water in which the fish was boiled. Let the fish cool in the water, then put it in an earthen jar, pour the boiling liquid over, and let stand for a day or two before using.

PICKLED SALMON—II

Cut the fish into large pieces and cook until done in salted and acidulated water. Drain, cool, and skin. Put into a preserving-kettle [Page 290] two quarts of vinegar, one cupful of boiling water, four blades of mace, two tablespoonfuls of sugar, a dozen cloves, two tablespoonfuls of mustard seed, an onion sliced, a dozen pepper-corns, one small red pepper, two bay-leaves, and a teaspoonful of celery seed. Bring to the boil, put in the fish, boil up once and cool. Let stand for two or three days before using.

PICKLED SALMON—III

Boil large pieces of salmon in salted and acidulated water, drain, and cool. Add one quart of the water in which the fish was cooked, two quarts of vinegar, a tablespoonful of pepper-corns, grated nutmeg and a dozen blades of mace. Boil for half an hour and cool. Pour over the salmon, add a tablespoonful of olive-oil, cover, and keep in a cool place for two or three days before using.

SPICED SALMON

Mix half a cupful of vinegar, the juice of half a lemon, two cloves, a bay-leaf, an inch of stick cinnamon, a teaspoonful of salt and a pinch of black pepper. Bring to the boil and pour over salmon steaks which have been boiled, drained, and cooled. Let stand for [Page 291] two or three hours before serving.

SALMON SOUFFLE

Cook together one tablespoonful each of butter and flour, add one cupful of milk, and cook until thick, stirring constantly. Add half a cupful of stale bread crumbs, a teaspoonful of grated onion, a tablespoonful of Worcestershire Sauce, a teaspoonful of minced parsley, and the yolks of three eggs, well-beaten. Add one cupful of flaked salmon, mix thoroughly, and fold in the salmon, and bake in a pan of hot water in a moderate oven for forty-five minutes. Serve with any preferred sauce.

SALMON ON TOAST

Reheat two cupfuls of cold salmon steaks in a cupful of Drawn-Butter Sauce, seasoning with salt and red pepper. Take from the fire and add one egg beaten light with three tablespoonfuls of cream. Pour over slices of fried bread, sprinkle with minced parsley, and serve.

SALMON TIMBALES

Flake a pound of cooked salmon and rub to a paste. Season with salt, pepper, and grated onion, add a tablespoonful of chopped almonds and [Page 292] the unbeaten whites of three eggs. Mix thoroughly and stir in one cupful of cream whipped solid. Put into small buttered moulds, set into boiling water, and bake for twenty minutes. Turn out and serve with Hollandaise Sauce.

SALMON TURBOT—I

Cook together two tablespoonfuls of butter and three of flour. Add two cupfuls of milk and cook until thick, stirring constantly. Take from the fire, add two eggs, well beaten, a teaspoonful of minced parsley and the juice of half a lemon. Put into a baking-pan alternate layers of the sauce and cold flaked salmon, cover with crumbs, dot with butter, and brown in the oven.

SALMON TURBOT—II

Cook together one tablespoonful each of butter and flour, add two cupfuls of milk and cook until thick, stirring constantly. Take from the fire, add two tablespoonfuls of butter, and salt and pepper to season. Put a layer of flaked salmon into a buttered baking-dish, spread with the sauce, and repeat until the dish is full, having crumbs and butter on top. Bake for half an hour.

[Page 293] SALMON BOX

Line a square tin mould with hot boiled rice, fill the centre with cold boiled salmon flaked and seasoned with salt, pepper, and grated nutmeg. Cover with rice, steam for an hour, turn out on a platter, and serve with Egg Sauce.

SALMON WITH CUCUMBER SAUCE

Put a large cut of salmon into a buttered saucepan with salt, pepper, a bunch of parsley, a chopped onion, and sweet herbs. Add half a cupful of white wine and enough stock to cover. Simmer until the fish is done and drain carefully. Strain the liquid and thicken with flour cooked in butter. Peel and slice three small cucumbers, parboil in salted water, drain, and fry in butter with a little sugar. Add to the sauce with a tablespoonful of butter and the juice of a lemon. Pour over the fish and serve.

SALMON CROQUETTES—I

Cook together one tablespoonful of butter and two tablespoonfuls of flour, add one cupful of cream, and cook until thick, stirring constantly. Take from the fire, add one egg well beaten, and one pound of cold cooked salmon flaked. Let cool, shape into croquettes, [Page 294] dip into egg and crumbs, and fry in deep fat. Serve with any preferred sauce.

SALMON CROQUETTES—II

Cook together one tablespoonful of butter and three tablespoonfuls of flour. Add one cupful of cream, and cook until thick, stirring constantly. Season with salt, red pepper, and minced parsley, take from the fire, add the juice of a lemon and a can of flaked salmon. Mix thoroughly and cool. Shape into croquettes, dip in egg and crumbs, and fry in deep fat.

SALMON CROQUETTES—III

Cook together one tablespoonful of flour and two of butter, add a cupful of cream or milk, and cook until thick, stirring constantly. Take from the fire, add an egg well beaten, half a cupful of crumbs, a small can of flaked salmon, and salt, red pepper, and powdered mace to season. Mix thoroughly, cool, shape into croquettes, dip into egg and crumbs, and fry in deep fat.

SALMON CROQUETTES—IV

Cook together two tablespoonfuls each of [Page 295] butter and flour and add one cupful of cream in which the yolks of two eggs have been beaten. Cook until very thick, stirring constantly. Take from the fire, add a pound can of salmon, flaked, salt and pepper to season, and a teaspoonful of minced parsley. Stir in the beaten whites of the eggs and cool. Shape into croquettes, dip in egg and crumbs, fry in deep fat, and serve with Tomato Sauce.

SALMON CROQUETTES—V

Cook together two tablespoonfuls of butter and one of flour. Add one cupful of milk and cook until thick, stirring constantly. Add a small can of flaked salmon, pepper and salt to season, and three eggs well beaten. Reheat, but do not boil. When it thickens, take from the fire, and cool. When cold, shape into croquettes, dip in egg and crumbs, and fry in deep fat.

SALMON CROQUETTES—VI

Cook together one tablespoonful of butter and two of flour. Add one cupful of milk and cook until very thick, stirring constantly. Season with salt, pepper, and celery salt. Add two cupfuls of canned salmon freed from skin, fat, and bone and chopped fine. Mix thoroughly and spread on a platter to cool. Shape into croquettes, dip in crumbs, [Page 296] then in beaten egg, then in crumbs, and fry in deep fat. Serve with green peas.

SWEDISH SALMON CROQUETTES

Cook one cupful of white stock with a tablespoonful of butter, the yolks of two eggs, and parsley, pepper and salt, and grated onion to season. Add a can of flaked salmon and cook until thick, stirring constantly. Cool, shape into croquettes, dip in egg and crumbs, and fry in deep fat. Serve with Tartar Sauce.

SALMON CUTLETS

Cook together one tablespoonful of butter and three of flour. Add one cupful of cream and cook until thick, stirring constantly. Add a can of salmon, chopped, the juice of half a lemon, a tablespoonful of minced parsley, and salt and red pepper to season. Mix thoroughly, and cool. Shape into cutlets, dip in egg and crumbs and fry in deep fat.

SALMON CHOPS

Prepare according to directions given for Salmon Croquettes, shape into chops, dip into egg and crumbs, fry in deep fat, and serve with Tartar Sauce.

[Page 297] BAKED SALMON LOAF—I

Put a cupful of milk into a double-boiler and add enough bread crumbs to make a smooth paste. Cook until thick, stirring constantly. Add a can of salmon, chopped, half a cupful of cream, salt and red pepper to season and three eggs beaten separately, folding in the stiffly beaten whites last. Mix thoroughly, pour into a buttered mould, set into a pan of hot water, and bake until firm in a moderate oven.

SALMON LOAF—II

Mash a can of salmon, add the juice of a lemon, and half a cupful of fresh bread-crumbs, three tablespoonfuls of minced parsley, four tablespoonfuls of melted butter and four eggs beaten separately, folding in the stiffly beaten whites last. Put into a buttered mould and steam for an hour. Add to the oil drained from the salmon one cupful of boiling milk, one tablespoonful of cornstarch rubbed smooth in a little cold milk, and a tablespoonful of butter. Cook until thick, stirring constantly, take from the fire, add one egg well beaten, a teaspoonful of tomato catsup and mace and pepper to season. Turn the mould out on a platter and pour the sauce around it.

[Page 298] SALMON LOAF—III

Flake a can of salmon and mix it with the pounded yolks of two hard-boiled eggs, a tablespoonful of capers, and pepper, salt, mace, and parsley to season. Dissolve a teaspoonful of anchovy paste in a cupful of boiling water, add a tablespoonful of lemon-juice and a tablespoonful of soaked gelatine. Heat until the gelatine is dissolved and mix with the fish. Butter a mould and arrange upon it the rings of the hard-boiled eggs. Put the fish into it and put on ice until perfectly cold and firm. Turn out on a platter and serve with Mayonnaise.

SALMON LOAF—IV

Drain the oil from a can of salmon, remove skin, fat, and bone, and flake the fish with a silver fork. Add the yolks of four eggs, well beaten, half a cupful of bread crumbs, four tablespoonfuls of melted butter, and pepper, salt, and minced parsley to season. Fold in the stiffly beaten whites of the eggs, put into a buttered pan, and bake for half an hour. Add to the drained oil one cupful of milk. Thicken it with a tablespoonful each of butter and flour cooked together, take from the fire, and add one egg well beaten.

[Page 299] FRICASSEED SALMON

Reheat a can of flaked salmon in a cupful of Drawn-Butter Sauce, adding half a cupful of cream, and salt, red and white pepper to season. Take from the fire, add one egg, well beaten, pour over buttered toast, and sprinkle with parsley.

CURRIED SALMON—I

Chop a small onion fine, and fry brown in butter. Add to it the liquor drained from a can of salmon, and a tablespoonful of flour. When the flour is smooth, add half a cupful of water, a teaspoonful each of curry powder and lemon-juice, and salt and pepper to taste. Add a can of salmon flaked, reheat, and serve.

CURRIED SALMON—II

Fry a chopped onion in olive-oil, and when the onion is brown add a tablespoonful of flour mixed with a teaspoonful of curry powder. Add one cupful of boiling water and cook until thick, stirring constantly. Reheat flaked canned salmon in the sauce and serve with a garnish of sliced lemon.

CURRIED SALMON—III

Fry a chopped onion brown in olive-oil. [Page 300] add two teaspoonfuls of curry powder and a tablespoonful of flour. When the flour is cooked, add two cupfuls of hot water and cook until thick, stirring constantly. Add a tablespoonful of tomato catsup or Chutney Sauce and salt and pepper to season. Add a can of salmon flaked. Reheat and serve.

CREAMED SALMON

Bring to the boil one cupful of cream and half a cupful of milk. Add a teaspoonful of butter and two teaspoonfuls of corn-starch rubbed smooth with a little cold milk. Cook until thick, stirring constantly, and add one can of flaked salmon. Fill ramekins with the mixture, sprinkle with crumbs, dot with butter, and brown in the oven.

CREAMED SALMON ON TOAST

Prepare the fish according to directions given for Baked Creamed Salmon. Pour over slices of buttered toast, sprinkle with minced parsley, and serve.

BAKED CREAMED SALMON

Cook together two tablespoonfuls of butter and two of flour, add two cupfuls of milk or cream, and cook until thick, stirring constantly. Add salt, pepper and minced parsley to season, and a can of flaked [Page 301] salmon. Reheat and arrange in a baking-dish with alternate layers of crumbs and butter, having crumbs and butter on top. Bake in the oven until brown.

SALMON PATTIES

Prepare Creamed Salmon according to directions given in the recipe for Baked Creamed Salmon. Fill patty-shells and serve.

ESCALLOPED SALMON—I

Prepare Creamed Salmon according to directions given for Baked Creamed Salmon. Put into a buttered baking-dish, cover with crumbs, dot with butter, and brown in the oven.

ESCALLOPED SALMON—II

Cook together two tablespoonfuls of butter and one of flour. Add a cupful of water, the juice of a lemon, a small onion chopped, the yolks of three boiled eggs mashed smooth, and pepper and salt to season. Cook until thick, stirring constantly. Add a can of flaked salmon, reheat, and serve.

COQUILLES OF SALMON

Prepare Creamed Salmon according to [Page 302] directions given in the recipe for Baked Creamed Salmon, seasoning with salt, pepper and lemon-juice. Put into buttered shells or individual dishes with alternate layers of cooked mushrooms. Sprinkle with crumbs and grated cheese, dot with butter and brown in the oven.

DEVILLED SALMON

Prepare Creamed Salmon according to directions given for Baked Creamed Salmon, adding half a cupful of Worcestershire Sauce and the juice of a lemon. Fill individual dishes or a large baking-dish, sprinkle with crumbs, dot with butter, and brown in the oven.

BANKED SALMON

Reheat a can of salmon in a Cream Sauce. Arrange on a platter and put around it a border of mashed potatoes. Sprinkle with crumbs, dot with butter, and brown in the oven.

PRESSED SALMON

Mix together two beaten eggs, a tablespoonful of butter, two cupfuls of bread crumbs, a can of salmon, flaked, and salt and pepper to [Page 303] season, turn into a buttered mould, steam for half an hour, and serve cold with Mayonnaise or Tartar Sauce.

MOULDED SALMON

Free a pint can of salmon from fat, skin, and bone and flake the fish with a silver fork. Add salt and pepper to season, half a cupful of cracker crumbs, two tablespoonfuls of butter melted, and three eggs beaten separately, mix thoroughly, put into a buttered mould and steam for an hour. Serve with Drawn-Butter Sauce to which chopped olives and capers have been added.

SALMON IN GREEN PEPPERS

Prepare Creamed Salmon according to directions given for Baked Creamed Salmon. Cut slices from the tops of sweet green peppers, remove the seeds and fibre, fill with the prepared salmon, sprinkle with crumbs, dot with butter, put into a pan of hot water and bake for twenty or thirty minutes.

SALMON EN CASSEROLE

Chop a large onion and fry it in butter. Add a cupful of bread crumbs and one and one half cupfuls of milk. Bring to the boil, [Page 304] add salt and pepper to season, a flaked can of salmon, and two eggs well beaten. Pour into a buttered casserole, dot with butter, and bake brown. Sprinkle with minced parsley and serve.

BROILED SMOKED SALMON—I

Soak for twelve hours, changing the water three times. Drain, wipe dry, dip in olive-oil and vinegar, and broil. Serve with a garnish of lemon and parsley.

BROILED SMOKED SALMON—II

Cut into narrow strips, parboil for ten minutes, drain, cover with cold water, let stand for fifteen minutes, wipe dry, and broil. Season with red pepper and lemon-juice and serve with buttered toast.

BROILED SMOKED SALMON—III

Cut smoked salmon into strips and broil carefully. Pour over it melted butter and lemon-juice, sprinkle with minced parsley, and serve.

BROILED SMOKED SALMON—IV

Parboil slices of smoked salmon for twenty minutes, drain, cool, rub with flour, broil carefully, and serve with any preferred sauce.

[Page 305] BROILED SMOKED SALMON—V

Wash thoroughly and soak for a few hours very salt. Cover with warm water, simmer for fifteen or twenty minutes, drain, wipe dry, rub with butter, and broil.

BROILED SALMON A LA MAITRE D'HOTEL

Soak the smoked salmon for an hour in cold water, then drain and wipe dry. Brush with melted butter and broil carefully. Serve with Maitre d'Hotel Sauce.

SMOKED SALMON

Cut it into thin slices, warm it up in a little olive-oil, strain the oil when it is warmed, add to it lemon-juice and minced parsley, pour over the fish, and serve.

BROILED KIPPERED SALMON

Cut the salmon into strips, wrap in buttered paper, and broil carefully over a clear fire. Remove the paper and serve.

FRIED KIPPERED SALMON

Soak slices of kippered salmon in olive-oil for several hours. Drain off the oil and fry the salmon slices in it. Serve with melted butter [Page 306] and lemon-juice.

BROILED SALT SALMON

Soak the fish for thirty-six hours in cold water, changing the water often. Drain, wipe dry, rub with melted butter, broil, and serve with Egg Sauce.

BOILED SALT SALMON

Soak the fish over night, drain, rinse, and simmer for fifteen or twenty minutes. Season with pepper and butter and garnish with parsley.

PICKLED SALT SALMON

Prepare according to directions given for Pickled Salmon, soaking the salt fish for twelve hours before cooking.

SALT SALMON IN PAPILLOTES

Cut the fish into strips, soak for an hour in cold water, drain, and dry. Season with pepper and wrap each piece in tough, well-buttered paper, twisting the ends. Broil carefully over clear coals, unwrap and serve with any preferred sauce.

P.S. This is an insignificant fraction of what we really know about salmon. We are saving the rest for a Piscatorial Encyclopedia.



[Page 307] FOURTEEN WAYS TO COOK SALMON-TROUT

FRIED SALMON-TROUT CUTLETS

Cut cutlets from a large salmon-trout, dip in seasoned crumbs, and saute in hot fat. Serve with Cream Sauce.

BOILED SALMON-TROUT—I

Wrap the prepared and cleaned fish in mosquito netting, tie firmly, cover with cold salted water, bring to the boil and boil slowly until done. Serve with any preferred sauce.

BOILED SALMON-TROUT—II

Prepare and clean a salmon-trout, stuff with seasoned crumbs, and put on the grate in a fish-kettle. Sprinkle with salt, pepper, and grated nutmeg, add a bunch of sweet herbs, a clove of garlic and two tablespoonfuls of butter. Add enough Claret to cover and simmer until done. Drain the fish, strain the liquid, thicken if [Page 308] desired, and serve the sauce separately.

BOILED SALMON-TROUT—III

Wrap a small cleaned fish in mosquito netting, sew up, and simmer in salted and acidulated water until tender. Take up carefully, remove the netting, garnish with lemon and parsley, and serve with Egg or Cream Sauce.

BOILED SALMON-TROUT—IV

Clean a salmon-trout, stuff with seasoned crumbs, and put into a fish-kettle with equal parts of white wine and stock or water to cover. Add a carrot, an onion, a bay-leaf, and two or three beans of garlic. Cook the fish slowly, drain, and reduce the liquid by rapid boiling to one pint. Thicken with butter and flour, pour over the fish, and serve.

BAKED SALMON-TROUT—I

Clean a salmon-trout, stuff it with seasoned crumbs, and sew up. Put into a fish-kettle with a quart of white wine, half a cupful of butter, a chopped onion, two tablespoonfuls of chopped parsley, a can of button mushrooms, and salt, pepper, and grated nutmeg to season. Cover and cook in a moderate oven for an hour. Take up [Page 309] carefully, skin the fish, cover with crumbs, dot with butter, and brown in the oven. Reduce the gravy by rapid boiling, thicken with butter and flour cooked together, and serve in a gravy-boat.

BAKED SALMON-TROUT—II

Prepare and clean the fish and put into a buttered baking-pan with enough water to keep from burning. Bake slowly, basting as required with melted butter and hot water. Cook together one tablespoonful each of butter and flour, add a cupful of cream, and half a cupful of boiling water in which a bit of soda has been dissolved. Cook until thick, stirring constantly, and add two tablespoonfuls of melted butter and a teaspoonful of minced parsley. Pour the sauce around the fish and serve.

BAKED SALMON-TROUT—III

Have a large salmon-trout cleaned and larded. Put into a buttered baking-pan, rub the fish with salt and pepper, and pour over a wineglassful of Madeira. Cover with buttered paper and bake, basting every ten or fifteen minutes with the liquid. Serve with any preferred sauce.

[Page 310] SALMON-TROUT A LA GENOISE

Prepare and clean a salmon-trout, remove the backbone, stuff with seasoned crumbs, and put into a buttered pan with half a cupful of Sherry, two cupfuls of stock, a bunch of parsley, a sliced onion, and salt, pepper, and sweet herbs to season. Cover with a buttered paper and cook slowly, basting often. Take up the fish, strain the liquid, and add enough stock to make the required quantity of sauce. Thicken with flour cooked in butter, add two tablespoonfuls of butter, and lemon-juice and anchovy essence to season. Serve the sauce separately,

SALMON-TROUT A LA HOLLANDAISE

Prepare and clean the salmon-trout and cook in salted and acidulated water, seasoning with salt, pepper, and parsley. Drain, and serve with a Hollandaise Sauce to which chopped cooked oysters have been added.

SALMON-TROUT A LA MAITRE D'HOTEL

Prepare and clean a salmon-trout, split and broil, basting with oil if required. Serve with Maitre d'Hotel Sauce.

SALMON-TROUT A LA RICHELIEU

Put a cleaned salmon-trout into a baking-dish, [Page 311] with two tablespoonfuls of butter, salt, pepper, and grated nutmeg to season, and enough white wine to keep from burning. Cover with a buttered paper and bake, basting frequently with the liquid. Drain the fish and add enough white stock or oyster liquid to make the required quantity of sauce. Thicken with flour cooked in butter. Take from the fire, add the yolks of four eggs beaten with the juice of a lemon, reheat, pour over the fish, and serve.

PICKLED SALMON-TROUT

Clean the fish thoroughly and cut into strips. Cover the bottom of a baking-dish with sliced onion, sprinkle with salt and pepper, cover with pieces of fish, add more onions, and cover with cold water, made very acid with good vinegar. Add a few cloves, a bit of ginger root, and a pinch of allspice. Bake slowly until the fish is tender and serve cold.

SALMON-TROUT WITH SHRIMP SAUCE

Prepare and clean a salmon-trout and cook in salted and acidulated water to cover, adding a bunch of parsley. Drain and serve with Shrimp Sauce.



[Page 313] TWENTY WAYS TO COOK SARDINES.

BROILED SARDINES—I

Broil a dozen large sardines on a double broiler. Lay on fingers of toast, garnish with lemon, and serve with Maitre d'Hotel Sauce.

BROILED SARDINES—II

Drain the fish and broil quickly on a double-broiler. Serve on toast and garnish with lemon and parsley.

BROILED SARDINES—III

Drain large sardines, broil, lay on fingers of hot buttered toast, sprinkle with grated Parmesan cheese, and brown in the oven.

BROILED SARDINES ON TOAST

Drain large sardines, skin carefully, broil on a double-broiler, arrange on fingers of hot buttered toast, and pour over a tablespoonful of melted butter and a cupful of canned tomatoes. Boil slowly until [Page 314] tender, take up carefully, rub the sauce through a coarse sieve, bring to the boil, and add a cupful of cream beaten smooth with a tablespoonful of flour. Cook until thick, stirring constantly; take from the fire, add a teaspoonful of minced parsley, pour over the fish, and serve.

BAKED SARDINES—I

Skin a dozen sardines and heat in the oven. Drain the oil from them, bring to the boil, add one cupful of water, a teaspoonful of Worcestershire Sauce, and salt and pepper to season. Take from the fire, add the yolk of an egg beaten with a teaspoonful each of vinegar and made mustard, bring to the boil, pour over the fish, and serve with toasted crackers.

BAKED SARDINES—II

Drain the oil from large sardines, roll in cracker dust, season with pepper and lemon-juice, and brown in the oven. Serve with toasted crackers.

BAKED SARDINES—III

Drain and skin a dozen large sardines, put in the oven, and keep warm. Bring the oil to a boil, add a teaspoonful of Worcestershire [Page 315] Sauce and a teaspoonful of tomato catsup. Arrange the fish on fingers of buttered toast, pour over the fish, and serve.

BAKED SARDINES—IV

Marinate drained sardines in lemon-juice, then drain, sprinkle with cracker crumbs, and put into a hot oven for ten minutes. Cook together a heaping teaspoonful each of butter and flour, add one cupful of tomato-juice, and cook until thick, stirring constantly. Season with salt, pepper, grated onion, and sugar. Arrange the sardines on toasted strips of brown bread, pour the sauce over, and serve.

FRIED SARDINES

Drain large sardines, dip in egg and crumbs, fry, and serve on toast.

CURRIED SARDINES—I

Rub to a paste one tablespoonful of butter, one teaspoonful each of French mustard and curry powder, using lemon-juice to make smooth. Drain and skin large sardines, spread with the paste, broil, and serve on toast with a border of broiled tomatoes.

CURRIED SARDINES—II

Mix together a teaspoonful each of sugar [Page 316] and curry powder, add a cupful of cream and the juice of half a lemon, bring to the boiling point, add a dozen sardines, and heat thoroughly. Serve on toast with fried apple and sliced fried onion.

DEVILLED SARDINES

Skin, split and bone a dozen sardines. Season with salt, pepper, lemon-juice, and made mustard. Let stand for an hour in the seasoning. Broil and serve on toast, garnishing with lemon and parsley.

SARDINES A LA MAITRE D'HOTEL

Skin large sardines, arrange on fingers of buttered toast, and heat in the oven. Add to one cupful of Cream Sauce a tablespoonful of grated onion, a teaspoonful of minced parsley, salt and pepper to season, and a tablespoonful of vinegar. Pour over the fish and serve.

SARDINES A LA PIEDMONT

Skin a dozen sardines and put in the oven to heat. Put into a saucepan the yolks of four eggs well beaten with one teaspoonful each of malt vinegar, tarragon vinegar, and made mustard. Add a pinch of salt, and a tablespoonful of butter. Stir until thick, [Page 317] but do not boil. Put the sardines on circles of fried or toasted bread, pour the sauce over, and serve.

STUFFED SARDINES

Drain the oil from large sardines, skin and bone them, and stuff with chopped mushrooms, fine herbs, and bread crumbs made smooth with brown stock. Wrap in buttered paper, heat thoroughly in the oven, unwrap carefully, and serve on a hot dish.

SARDINE SALAD

Drain a dozen large sardines, remove the skin and bone, and lay upon a bed of lettuce leaves. Sprinkle with hard-boiled eggs, chopped fine, pour over a French dressing and serve with toasted crackers.

SARDINES IN CRUSTS

Scoop out the crumbs from stale French rolls and toast or fry in deep fat. Cook together a tablespoonful each of butter and flour, add a little boiling water, and cook until thick, stirring constantly. Season with anchovy paste and Worcestershire Sauce, and add drained and flaked sardines. Reheat, fill the shells, fit on the covers, and serve with quarters of lemon.

[Page 318] SARDINE CANAPES

Skin, bone, and mash sardines. Rub to a smooth paste, using melted butter and lemon-juice, and seasoning with salt and Tabasco Sauce. Toast small triangles of crustless bread, butter them, spread with the sardine mixture, heat thoroughly in the oven, and serve piping hot as a first course at dinner or luncheon.

SARDINE IN EGG CUPS

Cut hard-boiled eggs in halves crosswise and take out the yolks. Cut a thin slice off the bottom of each cup. Rub the yolks to a smooth paste with olive-oil and add half a dozen sardines skinned, boned, and mashed. Season with salt, pepper, mustard and lemon-juice, fill the egg cups, and serve on lettuce leaves with French or Mayonnaise dressing.

SARDINE EGG CUPS A LA BEARNAISE

Prepare according to directions given in the preceding recipe. Heat in a double-boiler, or in the oven, being careful to keep dry. Pour over a Bearnaise Sauce and serve hot.

SARDINES A LA CAMBRIDGE

Boil and chop a peck of spinach. Add one [Page 319] cupful of fresh bread crumbs and four tablespoonfuls of melted butter. Mix thoroughly and add a dozen skinned and boned sardines pounded to a paste. Heat thoroughly, adding stock or water if needed. Put on a platter, shape into a mound, lay sardines on top and garnish with sliced hard-boiled eggs and lemon.

SARDINE RAREBIT

Toast strips of bread, lay a broiled sardine on each, and keep warm. Melt one tablespoonful of butter, add two tablespoonfuls of grated cheese, and gradually, as the cheese melts, the yolk of an egg beaten smooth with one fourth of a cupful of cream. When smooth and thick, season with salt and Tabasco Sauce; pour over the sardines and serve. Garnish with lemon and parsley.



[Page 321] NINETY-FIVE WAYS TO COOK SHAD

BROILED SHAD—I

Prepare and clean the fish, split, and remove the backbone. Season with salt and pepper, dip in oil, broil carefully, and serve with Maitre d'Hotel Sauce.

BROILED SHAD—II

Marinate the prepared fish for an hour in olive-oil, seasoned with salt, pepper, minced onion, and parsley. Drain and broil, basting with the oil as required. Serve with Maitre d'Hotel Sauce. The onion and parsley may be omitted from the seasoning.

BROILED SHAD—III

Clean the shad, split, remove the backbone and marinate for an hour in oil and lemon-juice, seasoning with salt and pepper. Drain, sprinkle with crumbs, and broil carefully. Serve with Fine Herbs Sauce.

[Page 322] BROILED SHAD—IV

Prepare, clean, and split the fish. Put on a platter skin side down and sprinkle with sugar, pepper, and salt. Let stand over night, broil, and serve with melted butter.

BROILED SHAD—V

Clean, split, season with salt and pepper, broil on a buttered gridiron, and serve with plenty of melted butter.

BROILED SALT SHAD

Soak for twelve hours in tepid water, drain and put into ice-cold water for half an hour. Drain, wipe dry, sprinkle with pepper, and broil on a buttered gridiron, skin side up. Serve with plenty of melted butter.

FRIED SHAD—I

Prepare and clean the fish and cut into suitable pieces for serving. Roll in seasoned flour and saute in hot fat. Serve with any preferred sauce.

FRIED SHAD—II

Clean, split, and take out the backbone, cut into strips, season to taste, and fry in hot lard until brown. Serve with any preferred sauce.

[Page 323] BONED FRIED SHAD

Remove the head and tail, then take out the back and side bones. Cut into convenient pieces for serving, season with salt and pepper, dip in egg and crumbs, and fry in deep fat. Serve with any preferred sauce.

SHAD CUTLETS

Cut the cleaned fish into convenient pieces for serving, dip into egg and crumbs and fry in fat to cover. Serve on a bed of spinach and garnish with hard-boiled eggs.

BOILED SHAD

Boil the fish in salted and acidulated water or in court-bouillon. Drain carefully, garnish with lemon and parsley and serve with Maitre d'Hotel or Hollandaise Sauce.

BOILED SHAD WITH EGG SAUCE

Sew the cleaned fish in mosquito netting, and boil slowly in salted and acidulated water. Drain, remove the netting, and serve with Egg Sauce.

BOILED ROE SHAD

Clean the fish and do not break the roe. Sprinkle with salt and pepper, wrap in separate squares of mosquito netting, tie firmly and [Page 324] put into a fish-kettle, side by side. Cover with salted water and simmer until done. Drain, remove the cloth carefully, and serve with Egg or Hollandaise Sauce.

BOILED SHAD WITH HOLLANDAISE SAUCE

Cook the prepared fish slowly in salted and acidulated water, drain, and serve with Hollandaise Sauce.

SHAD IN COURT-BOUILLON

Put the prepared and cleaned fish on a perforated sheet in a fish-kettle. Add two tablespoonfuls of butter, two sliced onions, and salt, pepper, mace, and parsley to season. Add enough Claret to cover and simmer slowly until done. Drain, strain the liquid and thicken with flour cooked in butter. Take from the fire, add two tablespoonfuls of butter, the juice of half a lemon, and red pepper to season. Pour over the fish and serve.

COLD BOILED SHAD

Boil a cleaned shad in salted and acidulated water or in court-bouillon. Serve very cold with Tartar Sauce.

[Page 325] BOILED SHAD A LA VIRGINIA

Chop together an onion, a carrot, and a stalk of celery. Fry in butter. Cover a prepared shad with boiling salted and acidulated water, and add the cooked vegetables to it. Add also two tablespoonfuls of white wine, a blade of mace, half a dozen peppercorns, two cloves, and a bay-leaf. Simmer slowly until the fish is done, drain, and serve with a Drawn-Butter Sauce, using the strained cooking liquor for liquid.

BOILED SALT SHAD

Soak the fish all day in warm water, changing the water frequently, wipe off the salt, and plunge into ice-water for an hour. Put into a fish-kettle with boiling water to cover, and simmer until done. Season with pepper and serve with plenty of melted butter.

BAKED SHAD—I

Bake a shad in a buttered baking-pan, adding enough boiling water to keep from burning. Baste while baking with melted butter and lemon-juice, seasoning with pepper and salt. Cook together a tablespoonful each of butter and flour until brown. Add slowly a cupful of stock and cook until thick, stirring constantly. Take [Page 326] from the fire and add the yolks of two eggs beaten with the juice of half a lemon. Pour over the fish and serve.

BAKED SHAD—II

Clean a large fish and stuff with seasoned crumbs mixed with minced parsley, adding enough melted butter to make a smooth paste. Score one side of the fish deeply and lay a small strip of salt pork in each gash. Put the fish in a buttered baking-dish, sprinkle with salt, pepper, and flour, and add enough boiling water to keep from burning. Baste as required with the drippings, adding more boiling water if necessary. Serve with Hollandaise Sauce or Drawn-Butter Sauce to which the mashed roe has been added.

BAKED SHAD—III

Stuff a fish with seasoned crumbs made smooth with melted butter. Season the fish with salt and pepper and cover with thin slices of breakfast bacon. Bake until well done, basting with melted butter and hot water. Add a teaspoonful each of lemon-juice and anchovy essence to the gravy remaining in the pan and thicken with flour browned in butter. Serve the sauce separately.

[Page 327] BAKED SHAD—IV

Stuff a large fish with seasoned crumbs, adding chopped onion and melted butter to taste. Sew up the fish and put into a buttered baking-pan with a cupful of salted boiling water and two tablespoonfuls of butter. Dredge with flour, and bake, basting with the drippings. Take up the fish carefully and thicken the gravy with two tablespoonfuls of flour browned in butter and made smooth with a little cold water. Add a cupful of stock or water, the juice of a lemon, and Worcestershire Sauce and kitchen bouquet to season. Strain through a sieve and serve with the fish.

BAKED SHAD—V

Stuff the cleaned fish with seasoned crumbs made very rich with melted butter. Wrap in a large sheet of buttered paper, fastening it securely, and bake in a moderate oven. Remove the paper carefully and serve with any preferred sauce.

BAKED SHAD—VI

Leave the head on. Make a stuffing of bread-crumbs, cold ham or bacon minced fine, sweet marjoram, pepper, salt, mace or ground cloves and a raw egg, or two if necessary, to bind. Put the fish [Page 328] into a deep buttered baking-pan fastening its tail in its mouth; put into the pan enough water to cover, add half a cupful of Port or Claret, and a tablespoonful of butter rolled in flour. Baste frequently with the gravy and bake until done. Pour the gravy over and serve.

BAKED SHAD—VII

Prepare a stuffing of two cupfuls of bread-crumbs, the beaten yolk of an egg, a tablespoonful of powdered sweet herbs, a tablespoonful of chopped onion, a teaspoonful of lemon-juice and salt, pepper, Worcestershire and powdered cloves to season. Stuff and sew up a prepared shad, lay on a buttered baking-pan, cover with slices of salt pork, dredge with flour, season with salt and pepper and bake, basting with hot water and melted butter as required. Serve with Hollandaise Sauce.

BAKED SHAD—VIII

Clean a shad and stuff with seasoned crumbs mixed with beaten eggs. Cover a buttered baking-dish with sliced raw potatoes, lay the shad upon it, add enough stock or water to keep from burning and bake. Serve with any preferred sauce.

[Page 329] BAKED SHAD—IX

Stuff the fish with cracker crumbs, mixed with minced parsley, capers, and lemon-juice, seasoning with salt and pepper, and adding enough melted butter to make a smooth paste. Put the fish in a buttered baking-pan, rub with butter, dredge with flour, and add enough boiling water to keep from burning. Baste every ten minutes with the gravy in the pan and melted butter, dredging lightly after each basting with seasoned flour. Serve with Brown Sauce.

BAKED SHAD—X

Trim and clean a small shad, put it into a buttered baking-dish, seasoning with salt, pepper, minced onion and half a cupful of white wine. Add water or stock, if necessary, to keep from burning. Cover with buttered paper and bake for half an hour. Prepare a cupful of Allemande Sauce and add to it the liquid drained from the fish and a little chopped cooked spinach. Strain over the fish and serve.

SHAD BAKED IN MILK

Clean a large roe shad, saving the roe and removing the back-bone. Soak stale bread in cold water and squeeze dry. Chop a large onion [Page 330] fine and fry in butter. Add the bread, and salt, pepper, parsley, and sage to season. Cook thoroughly, take from the fire and add the yolks of two eggs well beaten. Stuff the fish, sew up, rub with salt and put in a buttered baking-pan with thin slices of salt pork or bacon to cover the top. Fill the pan with sweet milk, leaving only the pork exposed. Bake slowly, basting often. Take up the fish carefully, strain the liquor, thicken with butter and flour, and serve separately. Fry the roe in butter, cut in slices, and garnish the fish with it.

BAKED SHAD A LA VIRGINIA

Clean the fish and stuff with seasoned crumbs made very rich with melted butter. Put in a baking-pan with enough boiling water to keep it from burning, and bake until done, basting with melted butter and the liquid in the pan. Take up the fish carefully and keep warm. Thicken the gravy with a tablespoonful of flour browned in butter, and mix smooth with cold water. Season with catsup, lemon-juice, Sherry or Madeira. Serve the sauce separately.

BAKED SHAD A LA CAROLINA

Clean a large roe shad, leaving the head on, [Page 331] take out the backbone and stuff with the boiled roe chopped, six chopped hard-boiled eggs, half a cupful of bread-crumbs, a chopped onion, a tablespoonful of butter, and salt, pepper, and minced parsley to season. Stuff the fish, sew up and put in a buttered baking-pan, adding enough hot water to keep from burning, three or four slices of bacon, and salt and pepper to season. Baste often and serve with Tartar Sauce.

BAKED SHAD WITH FINE HERBS

Sprinkle a buttered baking-dish with chopped onion and parsley, lay the prepared fish upon it and sprinkle with onion and parsley, seasoning with salt, pepper, and dots of butter. Add half a cupful of white wine and a cupful of white stock. Cover with a buttered paper and bake in a moderate oven. Take up the fish carefully and thicken the gravy with flour cooked in butter. Pour the sauce over the fish, sprinkle with crumbs, dot with butter, and brown in the oven. Squeeze the juice of a lemon over and serve.

BAKED SHAD STUFFED WITH OYSTERS

Rub a large cleaned fish with salt inside and out. Stuff with oysters and seasoned crumbs made very rich with melted butter, and bake, [Page 332] basting with melted butter and hot water. Thicken the gravy with flour browned in butter, adding a little hot water or stock if necessary, season with lemon-juice and catsup and serve the sauce separately.

STUFFED SHAD—I

Make a stuffing of two cupfuls of bread-crumbs, half a cupful of tomatoes, an onion chopped fine, half a cupful of melted butter, and salt and pepper to season. Stuff the fish, sew up, rub with butter, season with salt and pepper, dredge with flour, and bake for an hour, basting often with melted butter and hot water. Serve with Tomato Sauce.

STUFFED SHAD—II

Season a cupful of cracker crumbs with grated onion, minced capers and parsley, add a heaping tablespoonful of butter, and salt and pepper to season. Or, fry a small chopped onion in butter, add a cupful of crumbs, season with salt, pepper and lemon-juice, take from the fire and add the yolk of an egg beaten smooth with a little milk. Stuff the cleaned shad and sew up. Cover the bottom of a baking-dish with thin slices of salt pork, lay the fish upon it, cover with more pork, add enough boiling water to keep from burning, [Page 333] and bake, basting frequently. For the sauce, melt half a cupful of butter and add to it the juice of half a lemon and three tablespoonfuls of Claret. Serve the sauce separately.

STUFFED SHAD—III

Prepare a shad as for boiling and stuff with seasoned crumbs, adding the beaten yolk of an egg to bind. Fill the fish and sew up; put into a baking-pan enough water or stock to keep from burning and two tablespoonfuls of butter. Bake carefully, basting as required. Take up the fish and add to the liquid enough stock to make the required quantity of sauce. Thicken with flour browned in butter, season with lemon-juice, catsup, and Sherry or Madeira. Pour around the fish and serve.

ROASTED SHAD

Marinate the cleaned fish for an hour in oil and lemon-juice, seasoning with salt, pepper, minced parsley, and thyme. Drain, wrap in oiled paper, fastening securely, and bake carefully. Take up the fish and serve with Ravigote Sauce.

[Page 334] TOASTED SHAD

Put into a baking-pan a tablespoonful of butter and lay a cleaned and split shad upon it, skin-side up. Place it under a gas flame until the skin is puffed and blistered. Turn out on a hot platter; season with salt and pepper, dot with butter, and serve garnished with lemon and parsley.

PLANKED SHAD—I

Prepare the fish as for boiling, butter the plank, and tack the fish upon it, skin-side down. Season the fish with salt, pepper, and butter and bake in the oven. Serve on the plank.

PLANKED SHAD—II

Split the shad as for broiling and tack it on a buttered fish plank, skin-side down. Rub with melted butter and cook under a gas flame or in the oven. Season with salt, pepper, and melted butter, surround with a border of mashed potatoes, garnish with lemon and parsley and serve on the plank.

PLANKED SHAD—III

Tack the split fish on a buttered board, flesh-side up. Put into the oven and bake until brown, basting with melted butter seasoned [Page 335] with walnut catsup. Serve with a garnish of pickled walnuts.

PLANKED SHAD—IV

Tack a large split shad skin-side down on a buttered plank. Spread with butter, season with salt and pepper, and pour over a tablespoonful of walnut catsup or white wine. Cook under a gas flame, sprinkle with minced parsley, and serve with any preferred sauce.

PANNED SHAD

Split the fish down the back, remove the backbone, and put into a buttered baking-pan, flesh-side up. Rub with butter, sprinkle with salt and pepper, and bake in the oven. Garnish with lemon and parsley and serve with any preferred sauce.

STEWED SHAD

Prepare and clean a small shad and soak it for two or three hours in a marinade of oil and lemon-juice seasoned with onion and parsley. Put it in a buttered stewpan with half a wineglassful of white wine, three tablespoonfuls of mushroom liquor, four sprigs of parsley, a sprig of celery, a bay-leaf, a sprig of thyme, and two cloves. Add [Page 336] two handfuls of picked and washed sorrel or spinach, chopped fine. Season with salt and pepper and simmer slowly for two hours. Take up the fish, thicken the gravy with butter and flour cooked together, pour over the fish and serve.

PICKLED SHAD—I

Boil a shad in salted water to cover, drain and cool. Add to the water in which it was boiled half as much vinegar and a red pepper pod, whole cloves, allspice, and mace to season. Boil for an hour. Cut the fish into large pieces, put into an earthen jar and pour the boiling spiced liquid over the fish. Cover and let stand for two days before using.

PICKLED SHAD—II

Cut a large shad into pieces, put a layer in the bottom of an earthen crock, sprinkle with salt, and add a few whole cloves, allspice, peppers, and bay-leaves. Cover with fish, add more spices, and pour on strong vinegar to cover. Cover the dish, bake for four hours in a moderate oven, and let stand for three or four days before using. Serve cold.

CREAMED SHAD

Cook together a tablespoonful each of butter [Page 337] and flour, add two cupfuls of milk and cook until thick, stirring constantly. Add a teaspoonful of grated onion, take from the fire and add the beaten yolks of two eggs, and salt, pepper, and minced parsley to season. Add two cupfuls of cold cooked shad flaked fine, put into a buttered baking-dish, sprinkle with crumbs and brown in the oven.

SHAD VERT-PRE

Prepare and clean a small shad and put into a buttered baking-dish with salt and pepper to season, two finely chopped shallots and half a wineglassful of white wine. Cover with buttered paper and bake in a moderate oven. Take up the fish, add the juice to a cupful of Allemande Sauce and tint green with minced parsley and spinach juice. Pour over the fish and serve.

BROILED SHAD ROE—I

Soak two shad roes for twenty minutes in seasoned olive-oil, drain and broil. Serve with Maitre d'Hotel Sauce.

BROILED SHAD ROE—II

Wash and dry the roe and broil on a well-greased broiler, rubbing with butter while broiling. Serve with Maitre d'Hotel Sauce.

[Page 338] BROILED SHAD ROE—III

Parboil a large shad roe, drain, rub with melted butter, and broil. Serve with Maitre d'Hotel Sauce.

BROILED SHAD ROE—IV

Parboil the roe for ten minutes in salted water, drain, and plunge into ice-water for ten minutes. Wipe dry and put on ice for half an hour. Rub with oil and lemon-juice, broil, and serve with Maitre d'Hotel Sauce.

BROILED SHAD ROE—V

Wash a shad's roe in cold water, wipe it dry, rub with butter, and broil. Garnish with lemon and parsley.

BROILED SHAD ROE WITH BACON

Marinate the roe in seasoned oil, broil carefully, surround with slices of broiled bacon, and serve with Maitre d'Hotel Sauce.

FRIED SHAD ROE—I

Saute in hot lard, turning carefully. Garnish with lemon and parsley.

[Page 339] FRIED SHAD ROE—II

Season the roes with salt and pepper, dredge with flour, dip in beaten egg, then in crumbs, and fry in fat to cover. Drain, and serve with Tomato Sauce.

FRIED SHAD ROE—III

Parboil the roe in salted water, drain, plunge into cold water, and let stand for ten minutes. Drain, wipe dry, cut in half-inch slices, dip in seasoned lemon-juice, then in beaten egg, then in crumbs, and fry in fat to cover.

FRIED SHAD ROE—IV

Parboil the roe, drain, and cool. Dredge with seasoned flour and saute in butter.

FRIED SHAD ROE—V

Parboil the roe for ten minutes in salted and acidulated water. Drain, plunge into cold water, and cool. Drain, dip in beaten egg, then in seasoned crumbs, and fry brown in deep fat. Serve with any preferred sauce.

FRIED SHAD ROE—VI

Season the roe, dip it in corn-meal and saute in butter or lard. Or, parboil, cool, season, dip in beaten egg, then in cracker crumbs and saute in butter or lard.

[Page 340] FRIED SHAD ROE—VII

Parboil the shad roes in salted water to which a slice of lemon and a sprig of parsley have been added. Cool in the liquid, drain, wipe dry, dip in beaten egg, then in cracker crumbs, and fry brown in butter. Take up, strain the cooking liquid into the frying-pan, add a teaspoonful each of Worcestershire and catsup, and bring to the boil. Thicken with a tablespoonful of flour browned in butter and made smooth with a little Sherry or Madeira. Bring to the boil, pour over the roes and serve.

SHAD ROE SAUTE

Plunge a large shad roe into boiling water, then into cold water, drain, and saute until brown in butter. Add a tablespoonful of butter to a cupful of cream, bring to the boil, season with salt and pepper, pour over the fish and serve.

BAKED SHAD ROE—I

Butter a baking-dish and sprinkle thickly with chopped onion, parsley, and mushrooms. Lay the roes upon it, sprinkle with more onion, parsley, and mushrooms, season with salt and pepper and dot with butter. Add half a cupful of white wine and one cupful of white stock. [Page 341] Bake carefully, basting as required. Drain, thicken the gravy with flour cooked in butter, pour over the roes, sprinkle with crumbs, dot with butter, and brown in the oven. Squeeze lemon-juice over and serve.

BAKED SHAD ROE—II

Boil the shad roe slowly until done. Drain and put into a buttered baking-dish. Season with salt and pepper, spread with butter, and dredge thickly with flour. Bake in a moderate oven, basting frequently with melted butter and hot water.

BAKED SHAD ROE—III

Cover the roe from a large shad with boiling water and drain. Put into a buttered baking-pan with two tablespoonfuls of butter, one cupful of stock and salt and paprika to season. Bake slowly until done, strain the liquid and thicken with the yolks of three eggs beaten with one cupful of cream. Pour over the sauce, and serve with thin slices of broiled bacon.

BAKED SHAD ROE—IV

Lay the roe in a buttered baking-pan, season, add a little milk, and bake about fifteen minutes, basting often. Take up, sprinkle [Page 342] with lemon-juice, salt, cayenne, and minced parsley, and pour over a Cream Sauce, to which the yolks of two well-beaten eggs have been added.

BAKED SHAD ROE—V

Butter a baking-dish, put in two shad roes, season with salt and pepper, and add half a cupful of white wine. Bake carefully, basting as required. Chop an onion, two sprigs of parsley, and ten mushrooms. Fry in butter, add the liquid drained from the fish, and thicken with a little flour rubbed smooth in cold water. Spread the paste upon the roe, cover with large fresh mushrooms, sprinkle with crumbs, dot with butter, and brown in the oven. Serve immediately in the same dish.

BAKED SHAD ROE—VI

Butter an earthen dish and sprinkle with chopped onion, parsley, mushrooms, and bread-crumbs. Lay two skinned shad roes upon it, cover with crumbs, mushrooms, minced onion, and parsley, and pour over one cupful of white stock mixed with a tablespoonful of Sherry. Bake for half an hour, drain off the sauce, strain it and thicken with flour and butter, cooked together. Pour over the fish, cover [Page 343] with crumbs, dot with butter, sprinkle with lemon-juice, and brown in the oven.

SHAD ROE BAKED WITH BACON

Cover the bottom of a baking-pan with thin slices of bacon, lay the shad roes upon it, cover with bacon, and bake in a very hot oven. Squeeze lemon-juice over and serve with bacon as a garnish.

SHAD ROE BAKED IN TOMATO SAUCE

Boil the roe, drain, cool, and skin. Cook together for ten minutes one cupful of canned tomatoes, one cupful of stock or water, a slice of onion, and salt and pepper to season. Cook together two tablespoonfuls of butter and one of flour, add the tomato, and cook until thick, stirring constantly. Rub the sauce through a strainer. Put the roe on a buttered baking-dish, season with salt and pepper, cover with the sauce and bake. Serve in the dish in which it was baked.

SHAD ROE BAKED WITH CREAM SAUCE

Brown two tablespoonfuls of flour in butter, add two cupfuls of milk, and cook until thick, stirring constantly. Season with salt [Page 344] and pepper and continue according to directions given for Shad Roe Baked in Tomato Sauce.

ESCALLOPED SHAD ROE—I

Boil the roes in salted and acidulated water, drain, and flake with a fork. Spread a layer of the roe in a shallow buttered baking-dish, sprinkle with chopped hard-boiled eggs, season with minced parsley and lemon-juice, add a thin layer of Cream Sauce and repeat. Cover with buttered crumbs and bake brown.

ESCALLOPED SHAD ROE—II

Prepare according to directions given above, sprinkling crumbs on each layer of Cream Sauce, and adding grated cheese to the crumbs on top.

ESCALLOPED SHAD ROE—III

Boil the roes in salted and acidulated water, plunge into cold water, cool, drain, wipe dry, and mash. Add the chopped yolks of three hard-boiled eggs to a cupful of well seasoned Drawn-Butter Sauce. Mix the sauce with the roes. Butter a baking-dish, sprinkle with seasoned crumbs, add the roe mixture, cover with crumbs, dot with butter, and brown in the oven.

[Page 345] ESCALLOPED SHAD ROE—IV

Parboil in salted water the roes of two shad, drain, plunge into ice-water for ten minutes, drain, wipe dry, and flake with a fork. Add the yolks of three hard-boiled eggs rubbed smooth with a teaspoonful of anchovy paste and the juice of half a lemon. Add also one cupful of bread-crumbs, salt, cayenne, and minced parsley to season, and one cupful of Drawn-Butter Sauce. Butter a baking-pan, sprinkle with crumbs, fill with the mixture, cover with crumbs, dot with butter, and brown in the oven.

SHAD ROE CROQUETTES—I

Boil the roe for fifteen minutes in salted water, drain, and mash. Cook together two tablespoonfuls each of butter and corn-starch, add two cupfuls of hot cream, and cook until thick, stirring constantly. Take from the fire, add the mashed roe, and salt, cayenne, grated nutmeg, and lemon-juice to season. Cool, shape into croquettes, dip in egg and crumbs, and fry in deep fat. Serve with any preferred sauce.

SHAD ROE CROQUETTES—II

Simmer shad roes in salted boiling water for [Page 346] fifteen minutes, drain, and plunge into cold water. When cold, drain, dry, cut into slices two inches thick, season with salt, pepper, and lemon-juice, dip in egg, roll in crumbs, fry in deep fat, and serve with Tartar Sauce.

SHAD ROE CROQUETTES—III

Boil the roe, cool, skin, and mash fine. Cook together one tablespoonful of butter and two of flour, and add one-half cupful of cream and one-half cupful of stock. Cook until thick, stirring constantly. Take from the fire, add the yolks of two well-beaten eggs, and the mashed roe, and cool. Season with salt, pepper, lemon-juice, and minced parsley, shape into croquettes, dip in egg and crumbs, and fry in deep fat. Serve with Hollandaise Sauce.

SHAD ROE CROQUETTES—IV

Parboil two shad roes, drain, cool, skin, and mash. Cook together one tablespoonful of butter and two of flour, add one cupful of boiling cream or milk, and cook until thick, stirring constantly. Take from the fire, add the beaten yolks of two eggs, and minced parsley, lemon-juice, grated nutmeg, salt, pepper, and cayenne to taste. Reheat, stir until thick, add the mashed shad roe, mix thoroughly, and cool. Shape into croquettes, dip in egg and crumbs, [Page 347] fry in deep fat, and serve with Tartar Sauce.

SHAD ROE CROQUETTES—V

Cook the roe in boiling salted and acidulated water for fifteen minutes, drain, and mash. Beat together one-fourth cupful each of corn-starch and butter, add one and one half cupfuls of hot cream, and cook for ten minutes, stirring constantly. Take from the fire, add the juice of half a lemon, a grating of nutmeg, salt and paprika to season, the mashed roe, and a few chopped mushrooms fried. Cool, shape into croquettes, dip in egg and crumbs, and fry in deep fat. Serve with any preferred sauce.

SHAD ROE CROQUETTES—VI

Simmer two shad roes in salted boiling water for fifteen minutes. Take from the fire, drain, skin, and mash. Cook together one tablespoonful of butter and two of flour, add gradually one cupful of boiling cream, and cook until thick, stirring constantly. Take from the fire, add the yolks of two eggs, the mashed roe, one tablespoonful each of lemon-juice and minced parsley, and salt, pepper, cayenne, and grated nutmeg to season. Cool, shape into [Page 348] croquettes, dip in egg and crumbs, and put into the ice-box for an hour. Fry in deep fat and serve with Tartar Sauce.

SHAD ROE CROQUETTES—VII

Boil the roe of a large shad until done, drain, mash, and mix with half a cupful of bread-crumbs, a beaten egg, two tablespoonfuls of melted butter, and salt and paprika to season. Shape into small flat cakes and saute in melted butter, or dip in egg and crumbs and fry in deep fat. Serve with any preferred sauce.

SHAD ROE CROQUETTES—VIII

Parboil the roes in salted and acidulated water, drain, and plunge into ice-water to cool. Drain and flake with a fork. Cook together two tablespoonfuls each of butter and flour, add a cupful of milk and cook until thick, stirring constantly. Take from the fire, season with salt and pepper, add the mashed roes and two eggs well-beaten. Season with lemon-juice and anchovy paste, reheat, but do not boil. Cool, shape into croquettes, dip in egg and cracker crumbs and let stand for an hour before frying in deep fat.

[Page 349] SHAD ROE A LA BALTIMORE

Put two or three roes into a well-buttered baking-dish, sprinkle with salt and pepper, add a cupful and a half of stock, and two tablespoonfuls of butter. Cover and cook in the oven for fifteen minutes. Take up the roe and add slowly to the liquid the yolks of three eggs beaten smooth with one cupful of cream. Cook over hot water until thick, adding two tablespoonfuls of butter and salt and pepper to season. Pour over the fish, garnish with broiled bacon and serve.

SHAD ROE A LA BROOKE

Parboil two shad roes, drain, cool, and skin. Put into a saucepan, cover with white wine, add a clove, a blade of mace, and salt to season. Simmer for half an hour. Wash and drain two cupfuls of scallops, put into a saucepan and cover with salted boiling water, adding a bit of bay-leaf, four whole allspice, and two cloves. Cover the dish and boil for half an hour. Cook together one tablespoonful each of butter and flour, add a cupful of the water in which the scallops were boiled, and cook until thick, stirring constantly. Season with salt and pepper, add a teaspoonful of minced garlic, and gradually three tablespoonfuls of butter in small bits. Take [Page 350] from the fire and add the yolks of three eggs well-beaten. Put the roe into a serving-dish, cover with the scallops, and freshly grated horseradish. Pour the sauce over, reheat, and serve.

SHAD ROE A LA MAITRE D'HOTEL

Marinate the roes for an hour in oil and lemon-juice, seasoning with salt and pepper. Drain, broil, and serve with a Maitre d'Hotel Sauce to which chopped onion has been added.

SHAD ROE A LA MARYLAND

Put two or three roes in a well-buttered baking-pan, season with salt and pepper, add half a cupful each of stock and Sherry, spread the roe with butter, cover, and bake for fifteen minutes. Take up carefully and thicken the liquid with the yolks of three eggs beaten smooth with a cupful of cream. Take from the fire, add a tablespoonful of butter, pour over the roe, garnish with fried bacon, and serve.

PANNED SHAD ROE

Boil a shad roe for fifteen minutes in salted water, drain, and break up with a fork. Melt two tablespoonfuls of butter, add the [Page 351] shad roe with the yolks of two hard-boiled eggs mashed fine, a small cupful of bread-crumbs, and pepper, salt, and minced parsley to season. Reheat and serve very hot.

SHAD ROES EN BROCHETTE

Parboil shad roes for fifteen minutes, drain, and plunge into cold water. When cool, cut into small pieces and roll in flour. String on slender skewers with alternate squares of bacon cut very thin and broil over a clear fire or cook in the oven until the bacon is crisp. The flour may be omitted. Serve with melted butter or Maitre d'Hotel Sauce.

SHAD ROE KROMESKIES

Parboil a shad roe, drain, cool, skin, and cut into small pieces. Season with salt and pepper, wrap a thin slice of bacon around each piece, and fasten with a toothpick. Fry in deep fat and serve with any preferred sauce.

SHAD ROES WITH BROWN BUTTER SAUCE

Boil the roes slowly in salted and acidulated water, drain, and pour over half a cupful of butter melted and browned, and mixed with a tablespoonful of vinegar.

[Page 352] SHAD ROE WITH MUSHROOMS

Boil a shad roe, flake with a fork, and add an equal quantity of fresh or canned mushrooms cut in small pieces. Cook together a tablespoonful each of butter and flour and add half a cupful of cream mixed with the beaten yolks of two eggs. Mix with the mushrooms and roe. Fill ramekins, sprinkle with crumbs, dot with butter, and brown in the oven.

CREAMED SHAD ROE WITH MUSHROOMS

Parboil a shad roe, plunge into cold water, drain, cool, cut into squares, and saute in butter until brown. Season with salt and pepper and add half a cupful of cooked mushrooms and one cupful of boiling cream. Thicken with a teaspoonful of flour rubbed smooth with a little cold cream, season with salt and red pepper, and serve very hot.

SHAD ROE WITH EGGS

Boil a shad roe and flake fine with a fork. Beat three eggs, season with salt and pepper, add the roe, and cook in a chafing-dish or frying-pan with plenty of melted butter.

[Page 353] SHAD ROE WITH OYSTERS

Fry the shad roe according to directions previously given and serve with fried oysters and broiled bacon.

SHAD ROE WITH BROWN SAUCE

Soak a shad roe in water for half an hour, scald, drain, cool, and cut in slices. Saute in butter and drain, Cook a tablespoonful of flour in the butter, add one cupful of stock, and cook until thick, stirring constantly. Season with salt, paprika, Worcestershire, and curry powder; pour over the fish and serve.



[Page 355] SIXTEEN WAYS TO COOK SHEEPSHEAD

BOILED SHEEPSHEAD

Clean and salt the fish and soak in cold water for an hour. Drain, wipe dry, and cut several deep gashes across both sides. Put the fish on the drainer of the fish-kettle, pour the juice of a lemon over it, and cover with equal parts of milk and water. Add salt and pepper and minced parsley to season and simmer gently until the fish is done. Drain carefully and serve the sauce separately, thickening if desired.

BOILED SHEEPSHEAD WITH OYSTER SAUCE

Boil a prepared and cleaned fish in salted and acidulated water with a bunch of parsley, a sliced onion, and some sweet herbs. Drain, garnish with parsley, and serve with a Holandaise Sauce to which cooked oysters have been added.

[Page 356] BROILED SHEEPSHEAD

Prepare and clean a large sheepshead, score the sides deeply, and broil, seasoning with salt and pepper, and basting with oil. Melt half a cupful of butter and add to it the juice of a lemon and two tablespoonfuls of anchovy essence. Pour over the fish and serve.

FRIED FILLETS OF SHEEPSHEAD

Prepare and clean the fish and cut in fillets. Dip into salted milk, then in flour, then in beaten egg, then in seasoned crumbs, and fry in deep fat. Serve with any preferred sauce.

SHEEPSHEAD WITH CAPER SAUCE

Boil according to directions previously given and serve with Caper Sauce.

SHEEPSHEAD WITH DRAWN BUTTER

Clean a medium sized fish, rub with salt and pepper, steam for an hour, take up carefully, garnish with parsley and lemon, and serve with Drawn-Butter Sauce.

SHEEPSHEAD WITH PARSLEY SAUCE

Cook the prepared and cleaned fish in salted and acidulated water to cover, drain, and serve with Parsley Sauce.

[Page 357] SHEEP SHEAD A LA BAHAMA

Prepare and clean a large sheepshead and remove the fins. Score deeply to the bone on both sides and put into a buttered fish-pan with a chopped onion, a small bunch of parsley, four sliced tomatoes, and four chopped chilli peppers. Add salt and pepper to season, one cupful of Catawba wine, and enough white stock to cover. Cover with a buttered paper and boil until done. Drain, strain the liquid through a coarse sieve, and add enough stock to make the required quantity of sauce. Thicken with flour cooked in butter, take from the fire, add two tablespoonfuls of butter, a teaspoonful of minced parsley, and the juice of half a lemon. Cover the fish with broiled tomatoes, pour the sauce around, and serve.

SHEEPSHEAD A LA BIRMINGHAM

Prepare and clean a large sheepshead and put into a buttered fish-pan with four tablespoonfuls of butter, a bunch of parsley, a shredded green pepper, a chopped onion, six peeled and sliced tomatoes, two cupfuls each of white wine and water, and salt and paprika to season. Simmer until the fish is done, drain, and keep warm. Strain the liquid and thicken with flour browned in butter. Pour [Page 358] over the fish and serve with rice and baked green peppers.

SHEEPSHEAD A LA CAROLINE

Clean a sheepshead, cut off the fins and score to the bone on each side. Put into a buttered baking-pan with two tablespoonfuls of butter, a bunch of parsley, a small chopped onion, a shredded green pepper, and salt and pepper to season. Add one cupful of white wine and two cupfuls of water or white stock. Cover with buttered paper and bake in a moderate oven, basting often with the liquid. Take up the fish, strain the liquid, thicken with flour cooked in butter, take from the fire, add two tablespoonfuls of butter, the juice of a lemon and a teaspoonful of minced parsley. Pour over the fish and serve.

SHEEPSHEAD A LA CREOLE

Chop together an onion, a green pepper, a tomato, four mushrooms, a clove of garlic and a bunch of sweet herbs. Fry in olive-oil, add a tablespoonful of flour and cook until the flour is brown. Add one cupful of beef stock and cook until thick, stirring constantly. Put six slices of sheepshead into a buttered baking-pan, spread with the sauce, and bake slowly for an hour.

[Page 359] SHEEPSHEAD A LA HOLLANDAISE

Prepare and clean a sheepshead, cover with salted and acidulated water, and simmer until done. Drain and serve with Hollandaise Sauce.

SHEEP SHEAD A L'INDIENNE

Cook a large sheepshead in a fish-boiler with two cupfuls each of water and white wine, two tablespoonfuls of butter, two chopped onions, a chopped green pepper, a bunch of parsley, and salt, pepper, and sweet herbs to season. Cover with buttered paper, boil until done and drain. Cook three tablespoonfuls of butter with two tablespoonfuls each of flour and curry powder, add the liquid drained from the fish, and enough stock to make the required quantity of sauce. Cook until thick, stirring constantly, and skim off the fat. Add two tablespoonfuls each of butter and chutney sauce, take from the fire, add the juice of a lemon, pour over the fish, and serve with plain boiled rice.

SHEEPSHEAD A LA LOUISIANNE

Prepare and clean a large sheepshead and put into a buttered baking-dish with two sliced onions, a chopped green pepper, a cupful of stewed and [Page 360] strained tomatoes, two cupfuls of white wine, a bunch of parsley, a tablespoonful of butter, and salt and white pepper to season. Cover with buttered paper and bake for forty minutes, basting as necessary. When done, drain the fish and keep it warm. Strain the liquid and add enough brown stock to make the required quantity of sauce. Thicken with flour browned in butter, add the juice of a lemon and a little minced parsley. Pour over the fish and serve with a border of plain boiled rice.

SHEEPSHEAD A LA MAJESTIC

Butter a baking-pan and line it with sliced onions and tomatoes, sprinkled with salt, pepper, and minced parsley. Lay upon it a cleaned sheepshead weighing three pounds. Sprinkle with salt, pepper, and flour, and add enough stock and white wine to keep from burning. Baste as required and serve with the onions and tomatoes around the platter.

SHEEPSHEAD A LA MOBILE

Prepare and clean a large fish and cut it into thin slices. Put into a buttered saucepan with half a dozen sliced tomatoes, two sliced onions, a bunch of parsley, two bruised beans of garlic, and [Page 361] salt, paprika, and sweet herbs to season. Add equal parts of Claret and white stock to cover. Cover with buttered paper, bring to the boil, and simmer for forty minutes. Drain, strain the sauce, thicken with flour browned in butter, take from the fire, add a tablespoonful of butter and the juice of a lemon, pour over the fish and serve.



[Page 363] NINE WAYS TO COOK SKATE

FRIED SKATE

Prepare and clean the fish and cut into suitable pieces for serving. Dip in flour, then in egg, then in crumbs, and fry in deep fat. Serve with any preferred sauce.

BOILED SKATE

Prepare and clean a small skate and cut into convenient pieces for serving. Put into a kettle an onion and a carrot sliced, a bunch of parsley, a sprig of thyme, two bay-leaves, a tablespoonful each of salt and pepper-corns, and half a cupful of vinegar. Put the fish on this, add cold water to cover, and boil slowly for forty-five minutes. Drain and serve with any preferred sauce.

BOILED SKATE WITH BLACK BUTTER

Boil the skate until tender in salted and acidulated water to cover, with onion, thyme, parsley, bay-leaves, and pepper to season. Drain the fish and pour over half a cupful of browned butter to which a [Page 364] tablespoonful of vinegar has been added.

BOILED SKATE WITH CAPER SAUCE

Cook the fish in salted and acidulated water to cover, adding a sliced onion, two bay-leaves, and a bunch of parsley to the water, with salt and pepper to season. Drain, place on a hot dish, and serve with Caper Sauce.

BOILED SKATE WITH OYSTER SAUCE

Boil the fish in salted and acidulated water to cover, drain, and serve with Oyster Sauce.

BAKED SKATE

Skin the fish and cut into suitable pieces for serving. Put into a buttered saucepan with the juice of half a lemon and a bunch of sweet herbs. Sprinkle with salt and pepper, dredge with flour, and pour in two cupfuls of milk. When nearly tender, drain, brown in the oven, thicken the sauce with butter and flour cooked together, pour around the fish and serve.

SKATE WITH FINE HERBS

Butter a baking-dish and put into it pieces of prepared skate. Sprinkle with chopped mushrooms, onion, and parsley, season with [Page 365] salt and pepper, add two wineglassfuls of Sherry and half a cupful of stock. Sprinkle with crumbs and bake. Take up the fish carefully and add to the liquid enough brown stock to make the required quantity of sauce. Thicken with butter and flour cooked together, add a tablespoonful of butter, a teaspoonful of anchovy essence, and the juice of half a lemon. Pour around the fish and serve.

SKATE A L'ITALIENNE

Put the prepared fish into a buttered saucepan with a bean of garlic, one bay-leaf, two sprigs of thyme, a tablespoonful of butter, three cloves, and salt and pepper to season. Sprinkle with flour, cover the fish with milk, and simmer gently until done, then drain. Put into a serving-dish, sprinkle with grated cheese, and garnish with boiled button onions and triangles of fried bread. Strain the sauce over and serve.

SKATE A LA ROYALE

Parboil small pieces of skate, drain, cool, and marinate in oil and vinegar, seasoning with salt and pepper. Drain, dip in batter, and fry. Serve with any preferred sauce.



[Page 367] THIRTY-FIVE WAYS TO COOK SMELTS

BROILED SMELTS—I

Dip prepared smelts in lemon-juice and seasoned melted butter, then in flour; broil in a double-broiler, and serve with Remoulade Sauce.

BROILED SMELTS—II

Draw and clean large smelts, dip in oil, season with salt and pepper, and broil on a double-broiler. Serve with Maitre d'Hotel Sauce.

BROILED SMELTS—III

Split and bone large smelts, rub with seasoned oil, and broil. Serve with Bearnaise Sauce.

BROILED SMELTS—IV

Soak the prepared fish for an hour in seasoned olive-oil, drain, broil carefully, and serve with Maitre d'Hotel Sauce.

[Page 368] BROILED SMELTS—V

Take off the heads, split the fish, remove the back-bone, and broil for five minutes on a buttered broiler. Garnish with lemon and parsley and serve with melted butter, made very hot with red pepper.

BROILED BONED SMELTS A LA BEARNAISE

Split a dozen good-sized smelts, take out the back-bone, rub with seasoned oil, and broil on a double-broiler. Pour Bearnaise Sauce into the platter, lay the smelts upon it, and serve.

BROILED SMELTS WITH ONION SAUCE

Clean six or seven large smelts, dip in beaten egg, then into seasoned crumbs, and string on skewers by the heads. Broil, basting with melted butter as required. Fry two teaspoonfuls of chopped onion in butter, but do not brown. Take from the fire, add a teaspoonful of vinegar, and an equal quantity of minced parsley. Pour into a bowl and put on ice until cool. When ready to serve, mix a tablespoonful and a half of fresh butter with the sauce and make it into small balls. Serve one ball of the butter with each fish.

[Page 369] BAKED SMELTS—I

Remove the heads, split, dip in melted butter, then in flour. Put into a buttered baking-pan, bake for ten minutes, sprinkle with cayenne and lemon-juice, and serve.

BAKED SMELTS—II

Put prepared smelts into a buttered baking-dish, sprinkle with chopped parsley and mushrooms, and salt, pepper, and grated nutmeg to season. Pour over half a cupful of white wine, cover with a Cream Sauce, sprinkle with crumbs, dot with butter, and bake in the oven. Squeeze lemon-juice over and serve in the baking-dish.

BAKED SMELTS—III

Clean eighteen or twenty smelts and put into a baking-dish with one tablespoonful each of chopped onion and celery, a wineglassful of white wine, and salt and pepper to season. Cover with large fresh mushrooms and a cupful of Spanish Sauce. Sprinkle with crumbs, dot with butter, and bake in a hot oven. Sprinkle with parsley, squeeze lemon-juice over, and serve.

[Page 370] BAKED SMELTS A LA DUXELLES

Put a dozen cleaned and prepared smelts into a buttered baking-dish and sprinkle with chopped onion, parsley, mushrooms, salt, pepper, and grated nutmeg, cover with Drawn-Butter Sauce to which a wineglassful of white wine has been added. Sprinkle with crumbs, dot with butter, and bake for thirty minutes. Squeeze lemon-juice over and serve.

BAKED SMELTS A LA MANTON

Prepare according to directions given for Baked Smelts a la Duxelles, omitting the chopped onion and the wine from the sauce. Sprinkle with crumbs and grated Parmesan cheese, dot with butter, and brown in the oven. Squeeze the juice of a lemon over and serve.

FRIED SMELTS—I

Dip the prepared fish into seasoned, melted butter, then into corn-meal, and fry in deep fat. Or, dip in beaten egg and corn-meal.

FRIED SMELTS—II

Clean the fish, season with salt and pepper, and saute in hot fat. Or, dip in egg and crumbs and fry in deep fat.

[Page 371] FRIED SMELTS—III

Dredge the cleaned fish with flour, dip in egg and crumbs, and saute in a frying-pan with butter, or fry in deep fat.

FRIED SMELTS—IV

Dip the cleaned smelts in cream, then in seasoned flour, and fry in fat to cover. Serve with Tartar Sauce.

FRIED SMELTS—V

Clean small smelts, season with salt and pepper, dip in egg and crumbs, and string on skewers, piercing the head with a skewer. Fry in deep fat and serve with Mayonnaise or Tartar Sauce.

FRIED SMELTS—VI

Clean the smelts, trim off the tails, and remove the back-bone. Sprinkle with salt and pepper inside and out and skewer into circles with tooth-picks. Dip in egg and crumbs, fry in deep fat, and serve with Tartar Sauce.

FRIED SMELTS A L'ANGLAISE

Dip the cleaned fish into cracker crumbs, then in beaten eggs, then in cracker crumbs, and fry brown in deep fat. Serve with Tartar [Page 372] Sauce.

FRIED SMELTS AU BEURRE NOIR

Clean the smelts, season with salt and pepper, dip in corn-meal, then in beaten egg and crumbs, and fry in deep fat. Drain and serve with Brown Butter Sauce. If desired, the fish may be skewered in circles before frying.

FRIED SMELTS A LA PARISIENNE

Wash the smelts, remove the bone, wipe dry, dredge with flour, put their tails in their mouths, fasten with a tooth-pick, and fry in very hot fat. Garnish with hard-boiled eggs and serve with Tartar Sauce.

FRIED SMELTS WITH SALT PORK

Clean the smelts, leaving them whole. Dip into fine crumbs or corn-meal. Cut half a pound of fat salt pork into dice, and fry until crisp. Take up the pork, fry the fish in the fat, and drain on brown paper. Make a Cream Sauce, using the pork fat instead of butter, add to it the diced pork, pour around the fish and serve.

[Page 373] STUFFED SMELTS—I

Stuff the cleaned fish with bread-crumbs mixed with tomato and melted butter, seasoning with salt and pepper. Bake in a buttered pan and serve with any preferred sauce.

STUFFED SMELTS—II

Stuff cleaned smelts with chopped oysters and seasoned crumbs. Roll in melted butter, then in crumbs, and bake for fifteen minutes, basting with melted butter; the breading may be omitted if a more simple dish is desired. Serve with Bearnaise Sauce.

STUFFED SMELTS—III

Cook to a paste one cupful of crumbs and one cupful of milk. Beat smooth, add one egg well-beaten, a teaspoonful each of minced parsley, lemon-juice, and chopped olives, and one cupful of chopped oysters. Stuff large smelts, lay them in a pan lined with buttered paper, skewer the head and tail together, and fill the circles with stuffing. Steam for fifteen minutes or sprinkle with crumbs and butter and bake.

STUFFED SMELTS A L'ITALIENNE

Prepare, clean, and split the smelts, stuff [Page 374] with seasoned crumbs, and arrange in a buttered baking-dish, cover with Italian Sauce, and bake. Squeeze lemon-juice over and serve. Chopped oysters or cooked fish may be used with, or instead of, the crumbs.

STUFFED SMELTS AU GRATIN

Chop half a pound of raw fish, either sea-bass or salmon, and pound in a mortar to make very fine. Add two tablespoonfuls of bread-crumbs which have been soaked in hot milk and squeezed dry. Add the yolks of two eggs and the white of one, two tablespoonfuls of cream, and salt and pepper to season. Rub until very smooth and fold in lastly two tablespoonfuls of whipped cream. Let cool thoroughly.

Fry two tablespoonfuls of chopped onion in butter with two tablespoonfuls of minced parsley and a quarter of a pound of chopped fresh mushrooms. Season with salt and pepper and set aside. Stuff the smelts with the fish paste. Butter a silver platter and spread it thinly with the fried onions and mushrooms. Add two tablespoonfuls of white wine and lay the fish upon it. Sprinkle with salt and pepper, spread with the rest of the onion and mushrooms, cover with crumbs, dot with butter, and brown in the oven. Serve in the Same dish.

[Page 375] SMELTS AU GRATIN

Clean and dry eighteen smelts. Fry together in butter a chopped onion, two shallots, twice the quantity of mushrooms, a minced bean of garlic, and a tablespoonful of minced parsley. Butter a baking-dish, spread the cooked vegetables upon it, and lay upon it the prepared fish. Season with salt and pepper, moisten with half a glassful of white wine, cover with large fresh mushrooms, pour over a cupful of Spanish Sauce, sprinkle with crumbs, dot with butter, and bake in the oven. Sprinkle with lemon-juice and minced parsley and serve. The smelts may be boned if desired.

SMELTS AU BEURRE NOIR

Roll the cleaned smelts in flour, saute in butter, and arrange on fingers of buttered toast. Brown half a cupful of butter, add a tablespoonful of vinegar, pour over the fish, and serve.

SMELTS A LA BOULANGER

Clean and dry the fish, dip into cream, then into flour, and fry in deep fat.

SMELTS A LA DAVIS

Prepare and clean the fish, remove the bone, [Page 376] dip in milk, season with salt and pepper, dip in flour, and brown in butter. Melt two tablespoonfuls of peanut butter, add to it the juice of a lemon, pour over the fish and serve, garnishing with lemon and parsley.

SMELTS A LA TOULOUSE

Clean and bone a dozen large smelts. Cook in a saucepan with white wine and mushroom liquor or stock, seasoning with salt and pepper. Drain, and add the remaining liquid to a cupful of Allemande Sauce. Add a few button mushrooms and a tablespoonful of butter to the sauce. Pour over the smelts and serve.

SMELTS A LA DRESDEN

Clean and remove the bone from large smelts and stuff them with seasoned crumbs, chopped oysters, and mushrooms rubbed to a paste with melted butter. Butter a serving-dish, lay the prepared fish upon it, cover with chopped onion, and squeeze over the juice of a lemon. Add a tablespoonful of butter and a cupful of white stock and bake half an hour. Serve with any preferred sauce.

BOILED SMELTS

Cook smelts in salted and acidulated water, or in court bouillon, [Page 377] drain and serve with Tartar Sauce.

SMELTS WITH MAYONNAISE

Dip the cleaned fish into beaten egg, then into crumbs, and fry in deep fat. Serve cold with Mayonnaise.

STEWED SMELTS

Clean the fish and remove the heads. Put into a buttered china baking-dish. Add enough fish or veal stock to cover, and chopped onions, capers, parsley, thyme, pepper and salt, and white wine to season. Bring to the boil, pour over the fish and bake for ten or fifteen minutes. Serve in the same dish.

SMELTS WITH FINE HERBS

Chop together chives and parsley, and sprinkle a buttered baking-dish. Season with salt and pepper, lay prepared smelts upon it, sprinkle with chopped onions and seasoning, add half a cupful of white wine, cover with buttered paper and bake for ten minutes. Take up carefully, thicken the liquid with butter and flour cooked together, and serve with the fish.

[Page 378] SMELT CROQUETTES

Clean and split smelts and remove the backbone. Pound fine a pound of cooked halibut, seasoning with salt, white pepper, and Sherry. Add enough very thick Cream Sauce to make a stiff paste, and cool. Shape into croquettes and roll a smelt around each one, fastening it by sticking the tail through the head. Dip in egg and crumbs and fry in hot lard to cover. Serve with Tartar Sauce.

SMELTS IN MATELOTE

Chop together an onion, a sprig of parsley, three mushrooms, and a bean of garlic. Fry in oil and season with salt and pepper. Put the cleaned smelts into the pan, add enough white wine to cover, and simmer until done. Strain the liquid, thicken it with butter and flour cooked together, pour over the fish, and serve with a garnish of lemon and parsley.



[Page 379] FIFTY-FIVE WAYS TO COOK SOLES

NOTE:—If the imported sole is not readily obtainable, flounder or pompano makes a very acceptable substitute.

BOILED SOLES

Trim the soles, rub with lemon-juice and boil in salted water. Drain, and serve with any preferred sauce.

BROILED SOLE—I

Marinate for an hour in oil and lemon-juice seasoned with salt and pepper. Broil on a double-broiler and serve with Maitre d'Hotel Sauce.

BROILED SOLE—II

Clean and skin a sole, dip in melted butter and lemon-juice, then in seasoned crumbs, and broil. Remove the bone from an anchovy and rub it to a paste with a small lump of butter. Add a wineglassful of white wine and the juice of half a lemon and keep the sauce warm. [Page 380] Place the sole on a hot dish, pour the sauce over and serve.

BAKED FILLETS OF SOLE—I

Butter a baking-pan, sprinkle with chopped onions and parsley, lay fillets of sole upon it, spread with butter, season with salt and pepper, add a wineglassful of white wine, and bake in the oven, basting frequently. Take up the fish carefully, add to the liquid a dozen chopped mushrooms, a tablespoonful of fresh bread-crumbs and minced parsley to season. Lay the fillets on a baking-dish, spread with the paste, cover with large fresh mushrooms, sprinkle with crumbs, dot with butter, and brown in the oven. Serve very hot in the same dish.

BAKED FILLETS OF SOLE—II

Put the prepared fillets in a buttered baking-dish, sprinkling with chopped onion, parsley, and mushrooms, and seasoning with salt and pepper. Add a tablespoonful of butter and enough white wine and white stock in equal parts to keep from burning. Bake, basting frequently. Cook together one tablespoonful each of butter and flour, add a cupful of brown stock and cook until thick, stirring constantly. Take up the fish, drain the liquor from the pan into the [Page 381] sauce, and reheat. Spread the sauce over the fish, sprinkle with crumbs, dot with butter, and brown in the oven.

FILLETS OF SOLE BAKED IN WHITE WINE

Butter a baking-dish and put into it six fillets of sole. Add half a cupful of hot water and a tablespoonful of lemon-juice. Cook together one tablespoonful each of butter and flour, seasoning with minced parsley, grated onion, salt, cayenne, and powdered mace. Add one cupful of white wine and cook until thick, stirring constantly. Drain the fish, pour the sauce over, and serve.

BAKED SOLE WITH WINE SAUCE

Clean a large sole, trimming off the gills and dark skin and scraping the white side. Make a deep cut on each side of the back-bone and take off the fins. Put into a buttered baking-pan with salt and pepper to season and two cupfuls of white wine. Bake for twenty minutes. Cook together one tablespoonful of butter and two of flour, add a cupful of cold water and cook until thick, stirring constantly. Strain the liquor from the fish into the sauce, bring to the boil, [Page 382] add one tablespoonful each of butter and minced parsley, pour over the fish and serve.

FRIED SOLE—I

Remove the skin, dip in beaten egg, then in crumbs, and fry in deep fat. Serve with any preferred sauce.

FRIED SOLE—II

Skin and clean a pair of soles and marinate for an hour in oil and lemon-juice. Dip in egg and crumbs and fry in deep fat. Cool, trim, dip into melted butter, then into the beaten yolks of eggs, then into seasoned crumbs. Sprinkle with grated Parmesan cheese and broil slowly, basting with melted butter if needed. Serve with Maitre d'Hotel Sauce.

FRIED FILLETS OF SOLE—I

Marinate a sole for an hour in white wine, seasoned with salt, pepper, and sweet herbs. Drain, cut into fillets, dip in milk, dredge with flour, and fry in hot lard.

FRIED FILLETS OF SOLE—II

Sprinkle the prepared fillets with salt, pepper, and lemon-juice, dip in egg and crumbs, repeat, fry in fat to cover, and serve with Tartar Sauce.

[Page 383] FRIED FILLETS OF SOLE A L'ORLY

Soak the prepared fillets for an hour in lemon-juice seasoned with grated onion, minced parsley, salt and pepper. Drain, dry, dredge with flour or dip in batter. Fry in deep fat and serve with Tomato Sauce.

FRIED SOLE A L'ANGLAISE

Dredge the prepared fish with flour, brush with the beaten yolk of an egg, cover with crumbs, and fry in deep fat.

FRIED SOLE A LA COLBERT—I

Cut the fish into fillets, dip in milk, then in flour, and fry brown. Serve with melted butter and garnish with lemon and parsley.

FRIED SOLE A LA COLBERT—II

Select six small soles, cut off their heads, and make an incision down the back-bone. Season with salt, pepper, and lemon-juice, dip in egg and crumbs, fry in hot fat, drain, and serve with Colbert Sauce.

FRIED SOLES WITH SHRIMP SAUCE

Fillet the fish, dip in flour, then into egg and crumbs, fry in deep fat, and serve with Shrimp Sauce.

[Page 384] SOLE A L'AURORE

Butter a shallow platter, lay a sole upon it, cover with buttered paper and put into the oven for ten minutes. Take it out and remove the back-bone, filling its place with chopped onions and parsley. Replace the upper side of the fish, cover with a cupful of Cream Sauce and put in the oven for ten or fifteen minutes. Rub the yolks of hard-boiled eggs through a sieve over the fish, and garnish with the whites in rings, sliced lemon, and parsley.

FILLETS OF SOLE A LA BERCY

Cook some fillets of sole in butter, seasoning with salt, pepper, and minced onion. Take up the fish, add two tablespoonfuls of butter, a teaspoonful of minced parsley, and the juice of a lemon. Pour over the fish and serve.

FILLETS OF SOLE A LA BORDEAUX

Season the prepared fillets with salt and pepper, dip in melted butter, then into flour, then into beaten eggs, then into bread-crumbs. Fry brown in deep fat, garnish with lemon and parsley, and serve with Tomato Sauce.

[Page 385] SOLES A LA COLBERT

Skin and trim the soles and boil in salted water until done. Chop fine a head of endive and fry it in butter. Add two cupfuls of stock, bring to the boil, take from the fire, and add the yolk of an egg beaten smooth with a little cream. Place the soles on a hot dish, pour over the sauce, and serve.

FILLETS OF SOLE A LA CREME

Simmer the prepared fillets in salted and acidulated water to cover, seasoning with salt and pepper, sliced onion, cloves, and parsley. Cook together a tablespoonful each of butter and flour and add one cupful of cream and half a cupful of stock. Cook until thick, stirring constantly. Take from the fire, season with salt and pepper, and add the yolks of two eggs beaten smooth with a teaspoonful of lemon-juice and a tablespoonful of melted butter. Pour the sauce over the fillets and serve.

SOLE A LA DIEPPOISE

Butter a baking-dish, sprinkle with chopped shallot, and lay upon it the fillets of three soles. Add half a wineglassful of white wine and three tablespoonfuls of mushroom liquor. Cook for six [Page 386] minutes, take up, and reduce the liquid half by rapid boiling. Add to it one cupful of Allemande Sauce, a dozen cooked mussels or oysters, and half a dozen small cooked mushrooms. Take from the fire, add a tablespoonful of butter and the juice of half a lemon. Pour over the fish and serve.

FILLETS OF SOLE A LA FRANCAISE

Fry the fillets with a chopped onion and a tablespoonful of chopped parsley in seasoned butter. Serve with Italian Sauce.

FILLETS OF SOLE A L'ITALIENNE

Arrange the prepared fillets in a buttered saucepan, with salt, pepper, chopped onion, and half a cupful of white wine. Cook for ten minutes and drain carefully, reserving the liquid. Add four tablespoonfuls of chopped mushrooms, and two cupfuls of Spanish Sauce. Add a tablespoonful of butter, a teaspoonful of minced parsley, and the juice of half a lemon. Pour over the fish and serve.