Directions for Cookery, in its Various BranchesLeslie, Eliza
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Directions for Cookery, in its Various Branches
Leslie, Eliza
Cooking, American
You may dress a piece of sturgeon in this manner, but you must first
boil it for twenty minutes to extract the oil. Take off the skin before
you proceed to stew the fish.
CHOWDER.
Take a pound or more of salt pork, and having half boiled it, cut it
into slips, and with some of them cover the bottom of a pot. Then strew
on some sliced onion. Have ready a large fresh cod, or an equal
quantity of haddock, tutaug, or any other firm fish. Cut the fish into
large pieces, and lay part of it on the pork and onions. Season it with
pepper. Then cover it with a layer of biscuit, or crackers that have
been previously soaked in milk or water. You may add also a layer of
sliced potatoes.
Next proceed with a second layer of pork, onions, fish, &c. and
continue as before till the pot is nearly full; finishing with soaked
crackers. Pour in about a pint and a half of cold water. Cover it
close, set it on hot coals, and let it simmer about an hour. Then skim
it, and turn it out into a deep dish. Leave the gravy in the pot till
you have thickened it with a piece of butter rolled in flour, and some
chopped parsley. Then give it one boil up, and pour it hot into the
dish.
Chowder may be made of clams, first cutting off the hard part.
SHELL FISH
PICKLED OYSTERS.
Take a hundred and fifty fine large oysters, and pick off carefully the
bits of shell that may be sticking to them. Lay the oysters in a deep
dish, and then strain the liquor over them. Put them into an iron
skillet that is lined with porcelain, and add salt to your taste.
Without salt they will not be firm enough. Set the skillet on hot
coals, and allow the oysters to simmer till they are heated all
through, but not till they boil. Then take out the oysters and put them
into a stone jar, leaving the liquor in the skillet. Add to it a pint
of clear strong vinegar, a large tea-spoonful of blades of mace, three
dozen whole cloves, and three dozen whole pepper corns. Let it come to
a boil, and when the oysters are quite cold in the jar, pour the liquor
oh them.
They are fit for use immediately, but are better the next day. In cold
weather they will keep a week.
If you intend sending them a considerable distance you must allow the
oysters to boil, and double the proportions of the pickle and spice.
FRIED OYSTERS.
Get the largest and finest oysters. After they are taken from the shell
wipe each of them quite dry with a cloth. Then beat up in a pan yolk of
egg and milk, (in the proportion of two yolks to half a jill or a wine
glass of milk,) and grate some stale broad grated very fine in a large
flat dish. Cut up at least half a pound of fresh butter in the
frying-pan, and hold it over the fire till it is boiling hot. Dip the
oysters all over lightly in the mixture of egg and milk, and then roll
them up and down in the grated bread, making as many crumbs stick to
them as you can.
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