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The household gas cookery book

1900

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Presented as published in 1900. Historical recipes may not meet modern food-safety standards. Cook from the modern interpretation, not the original instructions.
well with vinegar. Pour three or four tablespoonfuls of salad oilMarinaded Herrings over the vinegar and leave it until required. The pieces of herring should be drained when wanted, and served either with cheese or as a relish with salads, breakfasts, luncheon, etc. Boiled Sole. —Procure a perfectly fresh fish ; the skin must not be removed. Lay it on a dish and sprinkle some salt over it and a tablespoonful of vinegar, and let it so remain for half-an-hour. . Place the sole into a saucepan sufficiently large for it, and cover it with veal stock, just sufficient to cover the fisBoiled Soleh. Bring it slowly to the boil, and let it simmer two or three minutes — in fact, until it is tender, and this may be known by putting a fork through the thickest part. Lift the fish out and let it drain. Serve on a folded napkin— the white side uppermost— with some plain melted butter, made with the veal stock. Sole Aux Fines Herbes. — Procure from the fish¬ monger a large sole as thick as you can get it, and have the backbone removed, so as not to spoil the appearance of the fish. Take three shallots and chop verv finely, one dessertspoonful of finely chopped parsley, and one teaspoonful of mixed herbs ; put them into a small stew* pan, with two ounces of butter, and let them fry for five minutes ; put in two tablespoonfuls of breadcrumbs and the yolks of two eggs well beaten up; stir it well, and turn it out on a plate to cool; now place this in the sole where the bone was removed, place the fish in an earthenware baking dish, sprinkle a little pepper and salt to taste, and a few pieces of butter spread over the fish, squeeze over the juice of a lemon, adding half a teacupful of water, place it in hot oven and let it cook until the fish is done ; remove the fish on to a hot dish, and pour the sauce through a strainer on to the fish ; send to table with cut lemon and parsley. GAS COOKERY BOOK. 57 Sole Au Vin Blanc, or Fillet of Sole with Wine Sauce. — Well butter a baking dish, and place in the fillets longwise, adding a few pieces of butter, and sprinkle a little saltSole Aux Fines Herbes and pepper. Add a little white wine and water, or water and a squeeze of lemon. Cover with a paper greased with butter and place same in oven, on the top of the solid shelf. They will be quickly cooked. Transfer your fillets to a dish and cover over with the fumette given hereunder; re¬ place in oven for two o>r three minutes and serve. Fumette. — The general way to make a fumette, say, for fumette of sole, after it has been filleted, use the bones and skin, also the head of a sole, wash them clean and free from any blood or intestines, chop them up and put them into a stewpan with a chopped onion and a fragment of thyme and cover them with an equal quantity of white wine and water, or if preferred instead of the wine the juice of one or two lemonsFumette. Let this simmer with the lid tightly closed on the saucepan until the whole is considerably reduced. Strain through a tamis.