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Cassell's dictionary of cookery

1892

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Presented as published in 1892. Historical recipes may not meet modern food-safety standards. Cook from the modern interpretation, not the original instructions.
verj' fine ton ounces of lean pork or veal, with the same quantity of raw pike or eel. Add to this mince a pound of fresh fat bacon, pound the whole together, and pass it through a sieve. Season well the forcemeat with salt and spices, and add to the above the trininiings of truffles, pounded with a little bacon, and passed through a sieve. I'repare a short paste, as in the recipe Salmon Pie, Hot. Butter a cold pie-mould of either round or oval shape, which set on a baking-sheet covered with pajjer, line it with two-thirds of the paste, and mask the bottom and sides with a thin layer of forcemeat-; fill the hollow with the squares of fish, and the truffles and forcemeat mixed, i-ange the preparation in a dome-shape fashion, rising above the rim of the mould, mask it with little sUces of bacon, then with a thin round flat made with the remainder of the paste. Cover the pie, pinch, decorate, and give it a nice colour ; push it into a moderate oven. Seven or eight minutes afterwards cover it entirely with paper ; bake it for two houi's ; then remove it from the oven, and half an hour after having been taken out, pour into the hollow on the top two glassfuls of aspic jelly mixed with a little Madeira. A quarter of an hour after take out the mould, and let the pie cool for twenty-four hours in-evious to being served. — M. Dubois. Salmon Pie, Hot.— Make a short paste as follows : — Take a pound of flom- and spread it in a circle on a slab, lay in the centre the yolk of an egg, ten ounces of butter, half a glassful of water, and a pinch of salt. Dilute the butter with the liquid, and then intro- duce the flom- gi-adually into it. As soon as a firm paste is obtained, break {briscr) it three times \\-ith the palms of both hands, gather it up, and set it on one side for half an hour. Take a round pie-mould, butter the inside well, and set it on a baking-sheet. Then make a quenelle forcemeat with ten or twelve ounces of the flesh of pike. Take about a pound and a half of fresh salmon, remove the skin and bones, and divide the flesh into squares. Chop one onion, fry it in a stewpan with oil and butter, adding a few spoonfuls of fresh-chopped mushrooms. Whenever their moisture is reduced, add two or three raw chopped truffles and the pieces of salmon. Fry over a sharp fire for a few minutes, season with salt and spices, and moisten with half a glassful of madeiraSalmon Pie, Hot . Let the whole boil for a few minutes, keeping the saucepan covered. Mould two- thirds of the prepared paste into a ball, and roll it out into a thin, circular, flat form. Raise the sides of this paste, pressing it between the fingers so as to form the paste into a sort of bag. Lift the paste carefully, and place it on the mould, co^'ering it well at the bottom and along the sides; cut the paste half an inch above the rim of the mould, and then mask it at tlie bottom and along the sides with a layer of forcemeat. Above this layer place half of the slices of salmon with some of the fine herbs ; mask again with forcemeat, and pile up the rest of the fish in a dome-like shape, rising above the rim of the mould. Cover the pieces of salmon with another layer of forcemeat, and place over all the rest of the paste rolled out verj- thin.