=Paper Bagged Eels.=--Eels may be cooked in a paper bag without growing
as hard as they are apt to do as ordinarily treated. Allow one-half
pound of eels (after they are dressed) to a person. Wash them
thoroughly, removing all blood from slit in eels. Cut in two-inch
pieces, put in a dish and sprinkle a teaspoonful of salt to every pound
over them. Now pour over them boiling water, enough to cover well, and
let stand until water is cold. Pour water off and leave eels where they
will drain until nearly dry. Take sufficient Indian meal to roll them
in, add a little pepper to it and roll each piece until well covered.
Place in a well-greased bag and cook about twenty minutes, when they
will be a rich brown, thoroughly cooked and deliciously juicy.
=Flounder à la Meuniére.=--Chop a small shallot and mix with a
teaspoonful of anchovy paste, a squeeze of lemon juice, an ounce of
butter, a little chopped parsley, a dash of cayenne, salt and pepper to
taste. Put the fish with the seasoning inside of a well-buttered bag,
after dredging the fish with flour. Pour a tablespoonful of melted
butter over the fish, seal up and cook. A two-pound fish, whole,
requires thirty minutes. The same weight of filets cook in eight
minutes.
=Filets of Flounder.=--Remove the filets from a medium sized flounder
and cut each filet in two. Season with salt and pepper and a few drops
of lemon juice and fold each filet in two or roll up skin side inwards.
Put a small piece of butter, or a teaspoonful of vegetable oil on top of
each and place carefully in the well-greased bag. Seal the mouth of the
bag, and cook about ten minutes on the wire grid in a hot oven.
Remove from the bag, lift carefully on to a hot platter, garnish with
water cress or parslied lemon slices and serve.
=Finnan Haddie.=--Pick out a fish that is thick through the centre,
weighing about two pounds. Soak in cold water, after washing well, for
an hour. Brush all over with melted butter, dredge with flour, put in a
well-buttered bag, skin side down, dot with butter and pour over it a
cup of hot milk. Seal securely and bake in a very hot oven twenty
minutes. The fish may be served whole, or flaked--free from bones and
skin--and served with cream sauce.
=Finnan Haddie.=--Prepare in the regular way, lay in wood cookery dish,
skin side down, season with bits of butter, add a small cupful of warm
milk, put in bag and seal. Bake twenty-five minutes and serve from the
dish with cream sauce. This eliminates the washing of dishes with the
strong fishy odor.
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