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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.
Fry the onion and apple in the butter; add the curry powder and flour, and fry with- out browning. Add the fish stock and season- ings, and simmer for half an hour. Strain ; add the fish cut in neat pieces. Simmer until the fish is cooked. Add the cream and lemon juice, and serve. Hand boiled rice separately. DRESSED CRAB. 1 cooked crab. Take off the claws, break them, and remove the white meat. Take out the meat from the shell, and remove the bag near the head. Chop up the creamy meat from the inside with the meat from the claws ; season with salt, cayenne, and lemon juice, and mix to a soft consistency with mayonnaise or cream. [ 39 ] Wash, dry, and rub the shell with a little salad oil, and fill it with the mixture. Scatter lightly with brown bread-crumbsDressed Crab, decorate with lobster or green butter, and garnish with the claws. MAYONNAISE OF FISH. 1 lb. halibut or salmon. | ^ gill mayonnaise sauce. 1 gill aspic jelly. Decoration. — ^Truffle, cucumber green, or chilli. Salad for dishing. — Chopped aspic. Boil the fish carefully, remove the skin and bones, and press till cold. Lay it on a high bed of picked salad. Mix the mayonnaise and the liquid aspic ; season, and leave till almost setting. Pour it over the fish, decorate to taste, glaze it with a little cold aspic jelly. Garnish with chopped aspic, salad, etc. N.B. — If no aspic is obtainable, use gill of mayonnaise sauce set with ^ oz. gelatine. [ *0 ] SAVOURY LOBSTER CREAM. J lb. cooked lobster. 1 gill cream, i „ aspic. I „ tomato pulp. 1 teaspoonful mayonnaise. Decoration. — Liquid aspic. juice. ^ oz. gelatine. J gill water. Cayenne, salt, and lemon Lobster. Truffle, etc. Line a border mould thinly with aspic, and decorate with neat claw pieces of lobster, truffle, etc. Chop and pound the lobster. Whip the cream lightly, and mix all the ingredients together, adding the dissolved gelatine last. Add colouring if required, and mould when beginning to thicken. Turn out when set, and decorate with mayonnaise, salad, lobster feelers, and chopped aspic jelly. N.B. — Crayfish, prawns, etc., may be sub- stituted for lobster. This savoury fish cream may also be moulded in small moulds. Cut the prawns in neat pieces. Set a little jelly at the foot of small wet moulds, and PRAWNS IN ASPIC, 1 dozen shelled prawns. ^ pint aspic jelly. Decoration. — Truffle and chervil. [ *1 ] decorate to taste. Fill the moulds with alternate layers of prawns and jelly, allowing each layer to set before putting in another. Turn out, and decorate with chopped jelly, crimped cucumber, etc. N.B. — Shrimps, cooked lobster, or neat pieces of hard-boiled eggs may be substituted for prawns. r ' ’Xi i - i “ i •. ill' ‘i ' • : .4./ i’ • ‘ ^*'^'1 ” • .... ■• - .it '' * • . .••<•■■• 'i.' f] » f " '■ • ■ ■ V ••■ .v< • ic .iv5 ' * • • • ■ ** ' ^ V'. ' » V-,' , •A- "'.- ■> ■.►<■',' 'y^ . -V ■ • ' . . L-‘r • ^ * ' • A ■ ■ • .■A \ lrv>, V .Hi f I ' 1 •,7 ‘ENTRfiEa hV ■< t t i I o '*3 I # f L I t I I \ i 1 I I \ 1 / [ « ] FILLETS OF BEEF A LA GODARD. lb. fillet of beef. 1 teaspoonful chopped onion. 1 teaspoonful chopped parsley. 1^ oz. butter. Veal Moulds. 1 tablespoonful veal. A little cream. minced Pepper and salt. Rounds of ham. Chopped parsley. Dishing. — Creamy potato. Sauce. Fillets of Beef a la Godard