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Allied cookery

1916

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Presented as published in 1916. Historical recipes may not meet modern food-safety standards. Cook from the modern interpretation, not the original instructions.
Hrrange the oysters on the half-shell in a pan of coarse salt. Squeeze a little lemon-juice over each. Sprinkle with very little fine buttered bread-crumbs and place on each oyster bits of butter the size of a peaRoast Oysters. Put under the grill until lightly browned. The flame must be over the oysters and care taken that they are not over-cooked. A. A. B., Chef, Mount Royal Club. RAIE AU BEURRE NOIR ffioil a piece of skate slowly in well salted water. When done, remove the skin and sprinkle with some blanched, that is, parboiled, capers. Pour over the fish a good quantity of butter which has been well browned in a frying pan; then a little boiling vinegar. Shake the platter once to mix the sauce together. It may not commonly be known that the skate, so neglected in this coimtry, takes very well the place of the delectable raie of Europe. H. S., Chef, Ritz-Carlton Hotel. 24 Allied CooKery 25 SALMON TIDNISH (Canadian) Scrape the fish and wash it. Rub in a tablespoon of salt; place the fish in a baking pan and score it across 4 or 5 times. Mix i cup of fine bread- crumbs, a dessert-spoon of minced parsley, 3^ tea- spoon of whole black pepper groimd, 2 dessert spoons of salt, milk to moisten well, rub over the fish, and put good -sized lumps of butter in the gashes. Cover the bottom of the pan with milk and put in a rather hot oven, basting every 10 or 15 minutes with the milk, which must be renewed in the pan often. When cooked lift from the pan onto a tin sheet, then slide carefully into the dish on which it is to be served; garnish with lemon and hard-boiled eggs, the gravy in the pan served with it. A piece of halibut may be cooked in the same manner. AUBERGINE AUX CREVETTES Scoop out one egg-plant, leaving shell about half an inch thick; parboil this and the shell for ten minutes. Chop the pulp and season with salt and pepper. Cut up an onion, brown in X cup of butter, add one cup of chopped, cooked, shrimp meat, fry for five minutes, then add the chopped egg-plant ; cook all together for ten minutes more. 26 Allied CooKery Add I egg and >^ cup of bread-cmmbs, fill shell with the mixture, cover with bread-crumbs, dot with butter, and brown in the oven. LOBSTER BEAUGENCY (St. James's Club specialty) ffioil a medium-sized lobster for 20 minutes; when cool, split in two. Remove flesh from shells and cut in dice. Fry in butter, add a glass of sherry. Add 2 tablespoonsful of cream sauce and ^ pint of cream, let it boil slowly for 10 minutes; in the meantime have 2 yolks of eggs, a few spoonsful of cream, an ounce of butterLobster Beaugency, mix slowly with the lobster and season to taste. Fill shells to the brim with this preparation and bake in oven. SCALLOPS EN BROCHETTE Hltemate scallops and thin slices of bacon on skewers; place upright on the rack in the oven; bake until the scallops are well browned. Served on slices of buttered toast. FILET OF SOLE FLORENTINE Hfter removing the skin put the fish in a plate with a slice of onion, a little parsley, and a spoonful of butter, }4 cup of white wine, salt, pepper, and Allied CooKery 27