Cods' roes are the best for this dish, but any roes will do.
Wash them well, cover with cold water seasoned with salt,
and boil for half an hour, or longer if the roes are large.
Take them up and stand away till cold, then cut into
slices about half an inch thick. Make some tomato sauce
by recipe given elsewhere ; when it is boiling, season with
cayenne, nutmeg, and salt ; stir in the yolk of an egg,
lay in the slices of roe, cover down until hot through.
Cut the toast into as many pieces as there are slices of roe,
stand them in a dish, and put on each some roe. Make the
sauce very hot, pour it over, and serve at once.
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308 THE ART OF LIVING IN AUSTRALIA.
MULLET AND TOMATOES.
2 Mullet Sd.
6 Tomatoes
Bread Crumbs .
1 teaspoonful Parsley-
Salt and Pepper
1 oz. Butter✪ Mullet and Tomatoes
Total Cost — lid. Time— 30 Minutes.
Fillet and slice up the mullet, season each slice with
parsley, pepper, and salt. Dip the tomatoes in boiling
water, skim and slice them up. Butter a pie-dish, lay in the
slices of iish and tomatoes alternately. Cover the top with
bread crumbs and little pieces of butter. Cover with buttered
paper and bake in a moderate oven for half an hour ; take
off the paper, and serve hot.
AMERICAN FISH.
1 Flathead Is.
\ pint Brown Sauce . . . . \d.
3 oz. Fish Forcemeat . . . ■ l 4^
1 oz. Dripping✪ American Fish J '
Total Cost— Is. 5d. Time— 30 Minutes.
Make a forcemeat and sew it into the fish. Eiib some
dripping over a baking sheet, truss the fish into shape,
and lay it on. Rub the rest of the dripping on to a piece of
paper, cover the fish carefully, bake in rather a hot oven for
half an hour or longer, according to size ; take off the paper,
dish it, and pour round a nice brown sauce. A fish force-
meat is made with 2 oz. cold fish, 1 oz. suet, 1 oz. bread
crumbs well mixed together, with some seasoning and an
egg.
COLD FISH AU GRATIN.
Any scraps of cold fish may be served in this way. If
any fish sauce is left, nothing is nicer to Avarm it in ; if
COOKEBY RECIPES, fc. 309
not, make a little with 1 gill of milk or water, 1 oz. of
butter, and 1 oz. of flour✪ Cold Fish au Gratin. Flake the fish up, butter a plate,
put the fish in and pour the sauce over. Sprinkle with
brown bread crumbs, and bake in the oven for a quarter of
an hour.
SMALL FISH.
Any kind of small fish will do for this dish. "Wash and
dry them ; well butter a sheet of stiff writing paper, lay the
fish in, sprinkle them with a little very finely chopped
oi)ion or shallot, parsley, pepper, and salt. Squeeze over a
few drops of lemon juice, and put a few little pieces of
butter about them ; wrap them up in the paper and bake
for twenty minutes. Serve in the paper in which they were
cooked.
BAKED FISH.
4 Mullet or Jew-fish .
2 oz. Bread Crumbs .
1 oz. Butter
Pepper and Salt
1 teaspoonful Parsley
1 teaspoonful Sweet Herbs
^ Lemon ....
2 oz. Suet✪ Baked Fish ....
Total Cost -Is. id. Time— 30 Minutes.
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AI-modernized reading of the original text
Cods' roes are the best for this dish, but any roes will do. Wash them well, cover with cold water seasoned with salt, and boil for half an hour, or longer if the roes are large. Take them up and stand away till cold, then cut into slices about half an inch thick. Make some tomato sauce by recipe given elsewhere ; when it is boiling, season with cayenne, nutmeg, and salt ; stir in the yolk of an egg, lay in the slices of roe, cover down until hot through. Cut the toast into as many pieces as there are slices of roe, stand them in a dish, and put on each some roe. Make the sauce very hot, pour it over, and serve at once.
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MULLET AND TOMATOES.
2 Mullet Sd.
6 Tomatoes Bread Crumbs . 1 teaspoonful Parsley- Salt and Pepper 1 oz. Butter
Total Cost — lid. Time— 30 Minutes.
Fillet and slice up the mullet, season each slice with parsley, pepper, and salt. Dip the tomatoes in boiling water, skim and slice them up. Butter a pie-dish, lay in the slices of fish and tomatoes alternately. Cover the top with bread crumbs and little pieces of butter. Cover with buttered paper and bake in a moderate oven for half an hour ; take off the paper, and serve hot.
AMERICAN FISH.
1 Flathead Is.
\ pint Brown Sauce . . . . \d.
3 oz. Fish Forcemeat . . . ■ l 4^ 1 oz. Dripping J '
Total Cost— Is. 5d. Time— 30 Minutes.
Make a forcemeat and sew it into the fish. Rub some dripping over a baking sheet, truss the fish into shape, and lay it on. Rub the rest of the dripping on to a piece of paper, cover the fish carefully, bake in rather a hot oven for half an hour or longer, according to size ; take off the paper, dish it, and pour round a nice brown sauce. A fish forcemeat is made with 2 oz. cold fish, 1 oz. suet, 1 oz. bread crumbs well mixed together, with some seasoning and an egg.
COLD FISH AU GRATIN.
Any scraps of cold fish may be served in this way. If any fish sauce is left, nothing is nicer to Avarm it in ; if
not, make a little with 1 gill of milk or water, 1 oz. of butter, and 1 oz. of flour. Flake the fish up, butter a plate, put the fish in and pour the sauce over. Sprinkle with brown bread crumbs, and bake in the oven for a quarter of an hour.
SMALL FISH.
Any kind of small fish will do for this dish. "Wash and dry them ; well butter a sheet of stiff writing paper, lay the fish in, sprinkle them with a little very finely chopped oi)ion or shallot, parsley, pepper, and salt. Squeeze over a few drops of lemon juice, and put a few little pieces of butter about them ; wrap them up in the paper and bake for twenty minutes. Serve in the paper in which they were cooked.
BAKED FISH.
4 Mullet or Jew-fish . 2 oz. Bread Crumbs . 1 oz. Butter Pepper and Salt 1 teaspoonful Parsley
1 teaspoonful Sweet Herbs ^ Lemon ....
2 oz. Suet .... Total Cost -Is. id. Time— 30 Minutes.
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