=A Breakfast Dish of Bloaters.=--Few people know how very nice smoked
and dried fish can be when cooked in a paper bag and seasoned in the
French fashion. Cut off the head and tail of the fish, loosen the skin
at the neck with a knife and holding it firmly between the knife and
finger, pull it off. Split the fish with a sharp knife, remove the
backbone and soak in cold water over night, or if you forget to do that,
for twenty minutes in water nearly at the boiling point. Arrange the
filets in a wooden baking dish, cover with milk, dot with bits of
butter, put in bag and bake in a hot oven for fifteen minutes. Garnish
with a little finely chopped parsley or sprigs of water cress and serve
with paper-bag baked potatoes. On a cool morning there are few more
appetizing breakfast dishes, while its cheapness puts it within the
reach of the most impecunious. For a change the filets may be baked in
buttered paper cases or cooked au gratin still in paper bags.
=Cat Fish.=--For the small sized cat fish--clean, wash, dry well, salt
and pepper inside and out, then grease well with butter or vegetable oil
and roll in fine, sifted bread crumbs or corn meal. Lay in a
well-greased bag on thin sliced bacon, put a few more slices of bacon on
top. Seal and cook half an hour.
=Codfish Cones.=--"Pick up" enough salt codfish to make two cupfuls of
the shreds. Cover with cold water and let stand for two hours, then
drain, make a cream sauce, using two level tablespoonfuls each butter
and flour, and one cupful of hot milk. Mash and season enough hot boiled
potatoes to measure two cupfuls, add sauce and fish and beat well with a
fork. Shape in small cones, brush with melted butter, dredge with fine
bread crumbs and put in a paper bag. Cook ten minutes. If desired some
thin slices of bacon can be cooked at the same time in a separate bag
and be used as a garnish for the cones.
=Codfish à la Crême.=--Cook the fish first in boiling salted water which
has been very slightly acidulated with vinegar. Let it cook until the
flesh separates from the bones. After draining thoroughly and removing
the skin and bones, break the flesh into large flakes. Pour a highly
seasoned white sauce over it. It may now be cooked in a wooden baking
dish in the bag, or it may be prepared as follows: Press it into the
form of an oblong mould, using only just enough sauce to hold the flakes
together. Not as much sauce is needed as when the fish is browned in a
baking dish. Brush the top liberally with melted butter, sprinkle with
rolled cracker crumbs. Put the mold in a paper bag in the oven, and let
the fish acquire a nutty, crisp crust. Send to the table garnished with
lemon and parsley or thin slices of tomato and a few sprays of water
cress.
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