Directions for Cookery, in its Various BranchesLeslie, Eliza
General
Directions for Cookery, in its Various Branches
Leslie, Eliza
Cooking, American
Having cleaned the fish, and cut off the fins, dredge them with flour.
Have ready some beaten yolk of egg, and in a separate dish some grated
bread crumbs. Dip each fish into the egg, and then strew them with
bread crumbs. Put some butter or fresh beef-dripping into a frying-pan,
and hold it over the fire till it is boiling hot; then, (having skimmed
it,) put in the fish and fry them.
Prepare some melted butter with a spoonful of mushroom-catchup and a
spoonful of lemon-pickle stirred into it. Send it to table in a
sauce-boat to eat with the fish.
You may fry carp and flounders in the same manner.
TO BOIL TROUT.
Put a handful of salt into the water. When it boils put in the trout.
Boil them fast about twenty minutes, according to their size.
For sauce, send with them melted butter, and put some soy into it; or
flavour it with catchup.
FRIED SEA BASS.
Score the fish on the back with a knife, and season them with salt and
cayenne pepper. Cut some small onions in round slices, and chop fine a
bunch of parsley. Put some butter into a frying-pan over the fire, and
when it is boiling hot lay in the fish. When they are about half done
put the onions and parsley into the pan. Keep turning the fish that the
onions and parsley may adhere to both sides. When quite done, put them
into the dish in which they are to go to table, and garnish the edge of
the dish with hard boiled eggs cut in round slices.
Make in the pan in which they have been fried, a gravy, by adding some
butter rolled in flour, and a small quantity of vinegar. Pour it into
the dish with the fish.
STURGEON CUTLETS OR STEAKS.
This is the most approved way of dressing sturgeon. Carefully take off
the skin, as its oiliness will give the fish a strong and disagreeable
taste when cooked. Cut from the tail-piece slices about half an inch
thick, rub them with salt, and broil them over a clear fire of bright
coals. Butter them, sprinkle them with cayenne pepper, and send them to
table hot, garnished with sliced lemon, as lemon-juice is generally
squeezed over them when eaten.
Another way is to make a seasoning of bread-crumbs, sweet herbs, pepper
and salt. First dip the slices of sturgeon, in beaten yolk of egg, then
cover them with seasoning, wrap them up closely in sheets of white
paper well buttered, broil them over a clear fire, and send them to
table either with or without the papers.
STEWED CARP.
Having cut off the head, tail, and fins, season the carp with salt,
peppers and powdered mace, both, inside and out. Rub the seasoning on
very well, and let them lay in it an hour, Then put them into a
stew-pan with a little parsley shred fine, a whole onion, a little
sweet marjoram, a tea-cup of thick cream or very rich milk, and a lump
of butter rolled in flour. Pour in sufficient water to cover the carp,
and let it stew half an hour.
Perch may be done in the same way.
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