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Soyer's standard cookery

1912

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Presented as published in 1912. Historical recipes may not meet modern food-safety standards. Cook from the modern interpretation, not the original instructions.
The spine being thus liberated, sever it at both ends, and withdraw it, together with all the adhering ventral bones. The intestines are then removed and the inside of the fish is well cleaned, the fillets are seasoned on their insides, and the trout is stuffed with a mousseline forcemeat of lobster. The two fillets are then drawn together and covered with thin slices of bacon and laid on the drainer of the fish-kettle and braised in Chablis. When the fish is done, remove the slices of bacon, glaze, and dish it up. Surround it with alternate heaps of mush- rooms tossed in butter and shrimps. Serve separately a Bechamel sauce, combined with the brais- ing-liquor of the trout, strained and reduced and finished with anchovy butter. Preparation de la Mousse de Tomates. This mousse is really a bavarois without sugar. Cook two pounds of tomato (cleared of skin and seeds and roughly STANDARD COOKERY. 93 chopped) in two ounces of butter. When the pulp is well mixed with the butter add two tablespoonfuls of white sauce Bechamel thickened with ten leaves of gelatine per quart of the sauce. Rub through sieve; and add to the preparation when cold, half of its volume of whipped cream. It is better not to whip the cream well, say, not more than half. Season to taste with lemon-juice, and if necessary a little salt and cayenne. Crevettes Marie. Prepare a trout mousse, mold it in egg-molds, and garnish the center with trimmed prawns' tails. Let the mousses set; then turn them out of the molds and lay in a deep entree-dish. Between each place a few prawns, the tails of which should be shelled. Cover the whole, slowly, with some good half- melted jelly, add a few sprigs of chervil, and fill up the dish with jelly, so as to completely cover the mousses. Trout have different names in various parts of Great Britain, but there is the common trout, the white trout, and the sea trout; the white trout never grows very large, but the sea trout does, and is of a very fine flavor. RIVER TROUT, when fresh, have the most beautiful skin imaginable, the golden and sometimes silvery tint of which makes me term it the sister fish of the red (sea) mullet. Should the gills be pink instead of red, and the skin dry (which is frequently the case on the second day), they may still be eatable, but their succulence goes with their beauty. Clean them as directed for salmon. Trout a la Twickenham. When you have cleaned your trout, put them into a kettle of boiling water to which you have added a good handful of salt, and a wineglassful of vinegar; boil gently about twenty minutes, or according to their size, dress upon a napkin, and serve melted butter, into which you have put a tablespoonful of chopped gherkins, two sprigs of chopped parsley, salt and pepperTrout a la Twickenham, in a boat. The remains of trout, salmon, or mackerel, are excellent pickled : — Put three onions in slices in a stewpan, with two ounces of butter, one turnip, a bouquet of parsley, thyme, and bayleaf, pass them five minutes over the fire, add a pint of water, and a pint of vinegar, two teaspoonfuls of salt and one of pepper, boil until the onions are tender, then strain it through 94 STANDARD COOKERY. a sieve over the fish; it will keep some time if required, and then do to pickle more fish by boiling over again. Trout a la Burton. Trout a la Burton