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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.
Pish Salad.— This consists of cold fish of any kind, hard-boiled eggs cut small, pickled gherkins, or any other green pickle. Oysters or shrimps may be added to the other fish, which should be separated neatly into flakes, and the whole should be moistened with a salad cream. Garnish with slices of lemon and some parsley. Pish Sandwiches. — Cut bread and butter as for other sandwiches, place thin scollops of any fish on the slices, and instead of mustard, use Tartar sauce. Put a layer of finely-sliced lettuce on the top of the sauce, and cover with bread and butter. Serve cut into squares. Thm slices of hard-boiled eggs may be added, but fish mate good sandwiches alone if weU seasoned. FIS (213 ) FIS Fish Sauce. — To a quart of the best vine- gar add an ounce and a half of cayenne pepper, two or three shallots, a few shi-eds of garlic, and two table-spoonfuls each of walnut ketchup iind soy. To be kept ia a large bottle, and well shaken every day. At the end of a fortnight divide the sauce, and keep it well sealed in small bottles. Use as required. It wiU be fit for use in about three weeks. Probable cost. Is. for this quantity. Fish, Sauce for Boiled. — Take some of the water in which the fish has been boiled, and simmer in it for a quarter of an hour an onion, an anchovy, and a table-spoonful of walnut ketchup ; add a pint of good veal gravy, strain, and thicken with butter and fioui\ Two table-spoonfuls of Fish Sauce the hsh broth will be enough for this quantity. Probable cost, 4d. Fish Sauce, without Butter.— Boil down a table-spoonful of horse-radish, an onion, four cloves, and two blades of mace pounded, in half a pint of water and a quarter of a pint of good vinegar. When the onion is soft, mince it with a couple of anchovies, and stir it into the sauce, adding a tea-spoonful of salt, and half the quantity of black pepper. Mix the beaten yolks of thi-ee eggFish Sauce without Butters (which should be first strained) into the sauce. Do this gra- dually, and throw the sauce from the pan to a basin, and then toss it over the fire till it is thick enough to serve. Time to boil the sauce, half an hour ; to thicken with eggs, five minutes. Fish Scallop.— Take half a pound of any cold fish ; weigh it when the bones and skia have been removed. Put it into a stewpan, with walnut ketchup and made mustard, half a tea-spoonful of each, and half a table -spoonful of anchovy sauce, mixed first with half a pint of cream and then with the fish. Heat aU together, but it should not boil. Fill a dish or put into scallop shells ; cover ^vith bread- crumbs, and place butter in small lumps over the top. Brown in the oven, or use a sala- mander. Time, a quarter of an hour to bake. Probable cost. Is., exclusive of the fish.