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Mrs. Seely's Cook Book: A Manual of French and American Cookery : with ..

1902

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Presented as published in 1902. Historical recipes may not meet modern food-safety standards. Cook from the modern interpretation, not the original instructions.
Palmettes of Striped Base Cut out six heart-shaped fillets from the thickest part of the bass. Season with pepper, salt, and the juice of half a lemon. FI8H^ 0Y8TER8, L0B8TER8, TERRAPIN 108 Put under a press for one-half hour. Cook in clarified butter for ten minutes until a delicate brown. Make a forcemeat (the same as for fillet of pompano). Color the forcemeat pink and green, also have some white. Pour in three pastry bags. On the outside of each palmette put a pink border, on the inside ali white with a small heart shape of green on the top. Set them away to get chilled. Have six pieces of heart-shaped oiled paper. Wrap up each palmette in one. Place them in a tin pan, set the pan over another which is half filled with water. Cook in the oven until the forcemeat is done, or from twenty to twenty-five minutes. Serve on com-starch croustade and with Hollandaise sauce. Ck>m-8tarch Croustade Place one pint of milk in a saucepan over the fire, and when it boils add two heaping tablespoons of corn-starch, which has been dissolved in a little cold water, and one-half teaspoonful salt. When the mixture has cooked five minutes, add the white of an egg. Wet a mould about three-fourths or one inch deep of the desired shape and pour in the mixture. While hot it may be colored pink or green. Set away to cool. Baked Bluefish Select a nice large bluefish, clean, and prepare it for baking. Wash it in salted water, and after drying it thoroughly, stuff it with veal forcemeat for fish, or else with bread forcemeat, to which a few capers have been added. Sew up the opening and rub the fish ali over with salt. Then, having put small pieces of butter over it, place it in a large pan with enough water to cover the bottom, and bake in a hot oven for forty-five or fifty minutes. After it begins to bake, sprinkle it with a little saltVeal Forcemeat for Fish and pepper. Baste it often with the liquid in the pan and a little melted butter. When it is cooked and a nice color, remove 104 MR8. SEBLY'S COOK BOOK caref ully to a hot piate. Do not break it. Serve with a brown sauce, or any desired sauce poured round the fish as a gamish, or serve it in a separate dish. Slices of Ck>d à la Seville Wash and dry one-half pound of Carolina rice, fry it in hot olive oil, drain on a sieve, and then put it in a stewpan with some pieces of fresh cod cut in pieces about four inches square, and which bave been fried in olive oil and drained. Cut a Spanish onion in very thin slices, and also fry the slices in oil. Mix them with six ripe tomatoes from which the skins and seeds bave been removed. Cook the onion and tornato slowly for fìve minutes, then pour it over the fish and rice. Season with a little cayenne, salt, and lemon juice. Moisten with one pint of white broth, place a buttered paper on top, cover with the lid of the pan, and place in the oven to bake. In about half an hour the fish and rice wiU be done. Remove the pieces of fish and with a wooden spoon stir the rice over the fire in order to mix it with the seasoning. Arrange the rice on a dish and place the pieces of codfish on it. Grarnish with tornato sauce or mussel sauce. Bhredded Ood baked with Oream Sauoe Shredded Cod Baked with Cream Sauce