Fast-Day Cookery; or, Meals without MeatJohnson, Grace
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Fast-Day Cookery; or, Meals without Meat
Johnson, Grace
Cooking (Fish); Lenten menus; Vegetarian cooking
Well clean and skin one pound of eels, cut into two-inch lengths, roll
in flour, sprinkle well with salt and Nepaul pepper. Fry in butter
a nice colour. Serve, neatly heaped one on the other, with bits of
parsley in between. Fried or mashed potatoes is the right accompaniment
for this dish, or plain boiled rice.
20. Fish and Potato Cutlets.
Mash some potatoes, take any cold fish, free it of skin and bone. Mix
them together with one teaspoon of chopped onion, one teaspoon of herbs
as for veal stuffing, salt and pepper to taste, the grated rind of half
a lemon. Form into cutlet shape, egg and bread crumb them, and fry a
nice golden brown. Decorate with fried parsley.
21. Filleted Hake.
Get one pound of filleted hake. Chop up an onion very small, mix with a
teaspoon of herbs, chopped parsley, lemon thyme and basil, and pepper
and salt to taste. Sprinkle each fillet with this rather thickly, then
roll it up and tie with a tape. Now put it aside. Cut up an onion, two
beads of garlic, two bay-leaves, fry in two ounces of butter a nice
yellow, then add one tea-cup of water and one packet Edwards' Tomato
Soup. Let it simmer gently twenty minutes. Add your fillets, and let
them cook in the sauce. Before serving untie the tape with great care.
22. Filleted Herrings.
Bake as many hard solid herrings as you require in vinegar, with a
pinch of Nepaul pepper and salt, and two or three bay-leaves. When
done, split each fish down the back, remove the bone, and then sprinkle
with some chopped onion and green parsley, and put it together so that
it looks as before. Serve cold, with a nice sauce made of equal parts
of olive oil and vinegar. This is very nice served with salads of any
kind.
23. Filleted Skate.
Get one pound of fillets of skate or crimped skate. Sprinkle them with
a little chopped onion, parsley and a hard boiled egg chopped; pepper
and salt to taste. Roll the fish up, and tie with tape.
Cut up an onion into rings, chop two beads of garlic and fry in two
ounces of butter a nice brown. Add two tablespoons of tomato pulp,
one tea-cup of water, twelve cloves, twelve peppercorns, and two
bay-leaves. Let it simmer gently half an hour, then add the skate, and
cook it in the sauce. Before serving, remove the tape and the bay
leaves.
24. Baked Mackerel.
Get some fine mackerel, sprinkle it over with Nepaul pepper and salt,
chopped onion, two bay-leaves, two beads of garlic chopped fine, then
pour over all one cup of tomato pulp. Bake in the oven till the fish is
done. Dish the fish very neatly, and strain the liquor over them.
25. Cod Steak.
Take some good sized pieces of cod, but not too large, roll them in
flour and fry a nice colour. Then fry some onions as for beef steak,
and smother the fish with them.
This is liked very much by children.
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