Always have a tin sheet for lifting boiled fish and for turning
broiled fish. Before broiling, rub with pepper and salt, and then
grease with fresh butter. Lay the fish on a gridiron well greased with
sweet lard and lay the tin sheet over it. When you wish to turn, take
the gridiron from the fire, holding the tin sheet on top the fish.
Hold them together, then lay them on a table with the tin sheet down
and the gridiron uppermost. Carefully raise the gridiron, leaving the
fish lying unbroken on the tin sheet. The cook may now easily slide
the fish on the gridiron, put it again on the fire and brown the other
side, putting the tin sheet back on top of it. Every thing should be
covered while being broiled. When done, lay it on a dish and pour over
it melted butter in which has been stirred pepper, salt, and minced
parsley. If devilled fish is desired, add to this dressing, one
tablespoonful pepper vinegar, one of celery vinegar, one of walnut
catsup, one of made mustard, one wine-glassful of acid fruit jelly. In
making sauces for fish, never use the water in which the fish has been
boiled.
Full directions for stewing fish are to be found in the subsequent
pages.
FISH À LA CRÊME.
Boil a firm fish, remove the bones, pick it to pieces. Mix one pint
cream or milk with two tablespoonfuls flour, one onion, one-half pound
butter (or less), and salt.
Set it on the fire and stir until it is as thick as custard. Fill a
baking-dish alternately with fish, cracker, and cream. Bake for thirty
minutes, use four crackers.--_Mrs. W. C. R._
HALIBUT.
Boil one pound halibut, then chop it very fine and add eight eggs well
beaten; pepper and salt to taste, then one cup butter.
Put it in a stewpan and cook until the eggs are done sufficiently.
Serve very hot on toast.--_Miss F. N._
_Halibut._
Halibut should be cut in slices of four pounds each. If to be boiled,
cover with salt water, and skim often; drain off and serve with butter
sauce.
If baked or fried, garnish with horseradish and serve with melted
butter.
FISH CHOWDER.
Fry a few slices of salt pork, cut the fish in small pieces, pare and
slice the potatoes, add a little onion chopped fine.
Place all in layers in the kettle; season with salt and pepper. Stew
over a slow fire thirty minutes.
CAT-FISH CHOWDER.
To be made of New River cat-fish.
Wash the fish in warm water, put it on in just water enough to cover
it, boil until tender or until the bones will slip out; take out the
largest bones, chop up the fish, put it in a stewpan with a pint of
water, a large lump of butter.
1 cup of cream, pepper and not much salt.
1 onion, one teaspoonful mustard, one-half teacupful walnut catsup.
Stew until quite thick, garnish with sliced lemon and serve
hot.--_Mrs. P. W._
CAT-FISH CHOWDER OR HOG-FISH.
Take two cat-fish, skin, and boil till thoroughly done; pick very fine
and add:
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