Foods and Household Management: A Textbook of the Household ArtsKinne, Helen
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Foods and Household Management: A Textbook of the Household Arts
Kinne, Helen
Cooking; Food; Home economics
Use thick pieces of large fish for boiling, or if small fish are
used they may be boiled whole. Add salt and vinegar to water in
proportion of 1 tablespoonful of salt and two of vinegar to three
quarts of water. Use enough water to cover the fish. Wrap the
fish in cheesecloth to prevent breaking apart, and plunge into
boiling water. Do not let the water boil after fish is in. The
fish is done when the flesh leaves the bone or when the flesh
flakes apart easily. The usual time for a thick piece is 30-40
minutes.
_Mock Hollandaise sauce._
Butter 3 tablespoonfuls
Flour 3 tablespoonfuls
Eggs 2
Milk 2 cups
Salt 1 teaspoonful
Lemon 1/2 to 1.
Make as for white sauce, adding the beaten eggs just before
taking from fire and stirring until well thickened. Add lemon
juice just before serving. This sauce is suitable for boiled fish
and vegetables.
=2. Left over fish.=
Fish may be picked apart, mixed with cream sauce, and served as
creamed fish or served as an escallop.
_Escalloped fish._
2 cups left over fish, picked over and freed of bones.
1 cup thin white sauce, dried bread crumbs buttered.
Butter a baking dish and line with crumbs. Add a layer of fish,
using half, and cover with half the sauce. Cover with a layer of
crumbs. Add another layer of fish, sauce, and crumbs, making this
last layer of crumbs quite thick. Place in a hot oven and leave
until crumbs are brown and fish is heated through.
_To butter crumbs._
Melt a little butter in a saucepan and turn the crumbs in,
stirring them over and over with a spoon until all the crumbs are
coated.
=3. Baked fish.=
Almost any medium sized fish is suitable for baking. The
favorites are bluefish, shad, haddock, and halibut, sliced.
Clean the fish, seeing that all scales are removed. Stuff and sew.
Shape with skewers to form a letter S and place upright on a
baking pan or lay fish on side. If the fish is not a fat kind, put
strips of salt pork over it and in pan or cut gashes in fish and
lay strips of pork in them. Dredge with flour. Bake one hour for a
three-pound fish, in a hot oven, basting frequently with the
tried-out fat. Serve with drawn butter or Hollandaise sauce.
_Fish stuffing._
Dried crumbs 1 cup
Melted butter 1/2 cup
Salt 1/4 teaspoonful
Pepper 1/8 teaspoonful
Onion juice A few drops
Parsley} 1 teaspoonful
Capers } each, finely
Pickles } chopped
Mix ingredients in order given.
=4. Creamed codfish.=
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