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Cassell's dictionary of cookery

1892

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Presented as published in 1892. Historical recipes may not meet modern food-safety standards. Cook from the modern interpretation, not the original instructions.
— This is a dish of a former daj^'s remains. Pare the skin ; cut the soles into round pieces of the size of half a crown. Then have a cream sauce, or else four spoonfuls of bechamel mixed with a quarter of a pound of butter, and a httle salt and pepper. Let the sauce be made hot, without boiling ; put the soles into it, and then the whole mixed into a vol-au-vent. The sauce must be kept rather thick, for fear of making the crust soft. Sole for a Convalescent.— Take one fillet of a large fresh sole, sprinkle a little pepper and salt upon it, and put it into a sauce- pan with four table-spoonfuls of cold water. Bring the liquor gently to the boil, skim it, and simmer very gently tiU the fish is done enough. Take up the sole wdth an egg-slice, and place it on a hot dish. Stir the well-beaten yolk of a new-laid eggSole for a Convalescent into the water, and whisk the sauce over the fire till it begins to thicken. Pour it over the fish, and serve im- mediately. Time to simmer the sole, eight to ten minutes. Probable cost, one large sole, Is. 6d. Sufficient for one person. Sole, Fricasseed. — Take a pair of large soles and one small one; clean, skin, and fry all three, and diain them on a sieve before the fire to free them from fat. Raise the fiesh of the small sole from the bones, tear it into flakes, and mix with it an equal quantity of finelj'- grated bread-crumbs, a tea-spoonful of picked and chopped parsley, a pinch of grated lemon- rind, and a little pepj)er and salt. MLx these ingredients thoroughly, and with the fingers work into the mixtm-e two ounces of fresh butter and one egg. Make it up into small balls, and fry these in hot fat. Put half a pint of good stock into a saucepan, thicken it with brown thickening, and add a table-spoonful of lemon-juice and a glassful of port or claretSole, Fricasseed. Season with salt and cayenne, if required. Let it boil till it is thick and smooth, lay the soles and the balls into it, and simmer all gently together till the fish is heated throughout. Lift ■ the soles ujaon a dish, place the balls round them, pour the sauce over all, garnish with cut lemon and parsley, and serve very hot. Time to simmer the fish in the gravy, three or four minutes. Probable cost, 3s. Cd. Sufiicient for four or five persons. Sole, Fried. — Take hold of the sole by the tail, and remove the scales by scraping them towards the head; cut off the fins and gills, wash the fish weU, and v.ape it di-y; take off the dark skin, by cutting it at the tail and di-awing it over the head. The roes may either be taken out, or left in and fried with the fish. Dry the sole thoroughly, flour it, and brush it over on both sides "with weU-beaten yolk of egg ; shake very finely-gi-ated crumbs of bread ail over, and leave it in a cool place for an hour, if time will permit. Put into a frying- pan as much good dripping as will, when melted, cover the fish. When it is quite hot— SOL ( 895 ) SOL Sole, Fried