=Sauce Hollandaise.=--This is really a warm mayonnaise, using butter
instead of vegetable oil. It is the best sauce for serving with salmon
or other boiled fish if you desire it hot. It requires a quarter pound
butter, half a lemon, the yolks of two eggs, a little salt and a half
teaspoonful white pepper. The secret of its successful making is to
preserve an even temperature. The sauce should not approach the boiling
point, as the eggs would cook and the sauce curdle. Put the eggs in a
small saucepan and add the butter, gradually stirring constantly with a
wooden spoon. It will soon thicken like a mayonnaise. When the butter is
all in, add salt and pepper and lastly the lemon juice, stirring until
well mixed. If the sauce becomes thick, add a little stock or hot
water. Surround the fish with parsley and slices of lemon and serve the
sauce in a bowl. A few sliced cucumbers should be served with fish.
=Egg Sauce Made From the Hollandaise.=--Egg sauce may be made from the
Hollandaise by sprinkling with two finely chopped hard boiled eggs and a
teaspoonful of parsley.
=Lobster Sauce.=--This is delicious with any white fleshed fish. Its
foundation is Hollandaise sauce, which is also the foundation of most of
the fish sauces. To make it, stir together one tablespoonful of butter,
a few drops of onion juice, a bit of bay leaf (not too much), pepper to
season, and the juice of a half lemon. Add a half cup of white stock or
hot water and set the bowl containing the mixture in a pan of hot water
and stir until the butter melts. As soon as very hot, take from the fire
and stir a little of the mixture in the well-beaten yolks of one and
one-half eggs, then add the rest of the sauce and return to the fire.
Stir constantly for five minutes or until thickened. Add a teaspoonful
of butter, half the pounded coral of a lobster and a tablespoonful of
chopped lobster meat.
=Maitre d'Hotel Butter.=--This is perhaps the simplest and best sauce to
serve on fried or broiled fish. To make it, beat a heaping tablespoonful
of butter to a cream in a warm bowl; add the juice of a lemon, a half
teaspoonful of salt and two teaspoonfuls of minced parsley. A grating of
nutmeg or bit of chives is sometimes added. If placed on the ice this
can be kept on hand a week or more. It is also excellent spread over a
juicy steak.
=Sauce for Broiled Shad à la Murray.=--Fry the milts, and while hot mash
with butter, a tablespoonful minced parsley and a teaspoonful of lemon
juice. Season lightly with salt and pepper and spread over the fish when
removed from the bag. Set in the oven one moment, then serve.
=Parsley Butter.=--To make this delectable fish sauce, mix one ounce
fresh butter with a teaspoonful each chopped parsley and lemon juice,
half teaspoonful chopped mixed tarragon and cress or chervil and salt
and pepper to season. Spread on a plate, set on the ice until cold then
shape into pats. This is nice with any fish.
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