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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.
Haddock, Baked (another way). — Clean the fish, scrape off the scales, and fill it with a forcemeat made by chopping the liver, and mixing with it four table-spoonfuls of fine bread-crumbs, an ounce of butter, a tea- spoenful of finely-minced lemon-rind, half a tea-spoonful of salt, and a qua-rter of a tea- spoonful of pepper. Bind it together with the yolk of an egg, and sew the opening in the fish secm-ely with thread. Sprinkle a table-spoonful of chopped onion and a tea-spoonful of chopped parsley at the bottom of a pie-dish, and pour over them an ounce of oil or clarified butter. Season the haddock with pepper and salt, and lay it on the minced herbs. Put the same quantity of onion and parsley over as under it, and pour on it a quarter of a pint of ale, stock, or water. Place three or four lumps of butterHaddock, Baked (another way) here and there on the fish, put a cover on the dish, and bake in a moderate oven. Serve the haddock in its own sauce. Time, a medium- sized haddock, twenty minutes or haK an hour. Probable cost, lOd. and upwards. Sufficient for three or four persons. Haddock, Baked (another way).— Wash the fish, scrape oft' the scales, and in emptying it, open it as little as possible. Sprinkle a little salt, and squeeze the juice of a large lemon upon it ; let it stand two or three hours, turning it over once or twice during the time. ^lix the finely-minced rind of half a lemon with two ounces of grated bread-crumbs, add half a salt-spoonful of salt, haK a salt-spoonful of pepper, and a quarter of a small nutmeg. Wipe the fish quite dry, brush it over with beaten egg, and strew the seasoned crumbs upon it. Put it on a wire drainer in a dish, pour on it four ounces of clarified butter, and bake it in a moderate oven. Baste it two or three times during the process. Send the gravy from tho fish to table with it. Time, from twenty minutes to half an horn- to bake a moderate-sized fish. Sufficient for two or three persons. Probable cost of haddock, 9d. and. upwards. Haddock, Baked (another way).— Clean and scale the haddock, wipe it very drj% and fill it with a good veal forcemeat. Sew up the slit securely with strong thread, dredge a little HAD ( 288 ) HAD flour and a pinch, of salt over it, and put about two ounces of butter, broken into small pieces, here and there in the dish. Bake it in a moderate oven. Mince, very finely, two large gherkins, a table-spoonful of capers, and three shallots; add half a salt-spooiiful of pepper, and put these ingredients into a saucepan, with half a pint of good brown sauce. Simmer gently for five minutes, then add a tea-spoon- ful of the essence of anchovy, and a table- spoonful of vinegar. Lift the haddock care- fully into a hot dish, garnish with parsley and sliced lemon, and send the sauce to table in a tureen. Time, twenty minutes or half an hour to bake a moderate-sized haddock. Probable cost, 9d. and upwards. Sufficient for three or four persons. Haddock, Baked, Gravy for {see Gravy for Haddock, Baked) .