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Shad Roe Relish

From The Portland Woman's Exchange Cook Book, 1913

Serves 1

Serves as an appetizer.

A modern interpretation · AI-generated from the original record

Ingredients

  • shad roe
  • salted water
  • fry in butter
  • slices of bread
  • slice of well-seasoned tomato
  • mayonnaise
  • few drops of onion juice
  • two thin crisp pieces of bacon

Method

  1. Boil shad roe until well cooked in salted water.

  2. When cool, fry in butter until golden brown and chill.

  3. Cut thin slices of bread, place a slice of seasoned tomato on each, spread with mayonnaise, add shad roe seasoned with onion juice, cover with bacon, add more mayonnaise, and chill until served.

As published

This recipe was extracted from The Portland Woman's Exchange Cook Book (1913) by Portland Woman's Exchange (Or.), page 2. The excerpt below is the record exactly as published.

Shad Roe Relish. Boil shad roe until well cooked, in salted water. When cool, fry in butter until a golden brown, and set away to chill. Twenty minutes before serving, cut thin (round or square) slices of bread. On each slice put a thin slice of well-sea- soned tomato, spread with a little mayonnaise, then the shad roe, which has been split and seasoned with a few drops of onion juice; cover with two thin crisp pieces of bacon

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