=Fish Cakes.=--Use for this two cupfuls cold fish freed from skin and
bones and chopped fine, and the same amount of cooked, seasoned and
mashed potatoes. Mix well, season with salt and pepper, add two
tablespoonfuls vegetable oil or melted butter and two tablespoonfuls of
milk. Whip the mixture until as "light as feathers." Shape into small,
flat cakes of even size. Beat up an egg on a plate, then egg the cakes
and roll deftly in the finest of sifted bread crumbs and again shape.
Put in well-greased bag, seal and put in a hot oven. Cook about twenty
minutes.
=New England Fish Pie.=--Have a pound of cod steak boned and cut in
pieces. Roll each piece in slightly salted flour, and season with
paprika or white pepper. Lay in the well-greased bag and put on top of
the fish a layer of oysters with their juice and a squeeze of lemon
juice. Sprinkle with a layer of finely rolled and buttered cracker
crumbs, dot with a few bits of butter, seal the bag and bake slowly
fifteen minutes. Have ready some hot mashed potato well seasoned with
cream and butter. Take the grid and bag from the oven, tear off the top
of the bag, spread the potato over the fish like a crust, brush over
with a little milk mixed with a portion of an egg yolk and set back in
oven for five minutes to brown and glaze, turning the grid with the bag
twice during the cooking. Cut open the bag, put the fish balls on a hot
platter, garnish and serve plain with a tomato sauce.
=Fish Soufflé.=--One pint of boiled halibut or other delicate fish,
freed from bones and skin and mashed to a pulp. Season with one small
teaspoonful of salt, a dash of pepper, and one teaspoonful of onion
juice. Melt a large tablespoonful of butter in a saucepan, and cook in
it for three minutes a tablespoonful of flour. Add slowly a cupful of
milk and the seasoned fish pulp. Beat two eggs thoroughly and add the
fish to them. Pour all into bag, seal and bake twenty minutes in a
moderate oven, half an hour.
=Planked Fish Bag-Cooked.=--Planked fish responds beautifully to the
paper-bag treatment, and there is no better way of developing the
distinctive flavor of any of the delicate white-meated fish. The plank
however should not be as thick as that usually required. It must be of
hard-wood, hickory, cherry, live oak, cedar or ash--well seasoned and
sawed about a half inch in thickness, rounded and tapered at one end
like an ironing board. This to accommodate the tail of the fish. If
cooking small fish use the oval wood cooking dishes made of maple wood.
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