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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, Boiled. — Wash the fish thoroughly, scrape off the scales, empty it, wipe the inside, and fasten the tail in the mouth with a skewer. Put two ounces of salt into half a gallon of water, and, when it is dissolved, put in the fish. Bring the water quickly to a boil, remove the scum carefully, then simmer gently until the ej'es of the fish start and the flesh leaves the bone easily. Take it up as soon as it is sufficiently cooked, or it will be hard and tasteless. Serve it on a napkin, garnish with parsley, and send melted butter and anchovy sauce to table in a tureen. Time, according to the size — a haddock weighing three pounds will require about ten minutes after the water boils. Sufficient for four or five persons. Probable cost of haddock, from 9d. upwards. Haddock, Boiled, with Egg Sauce. — Shred two ounces of beef suet very finely, and mix with it four oimces of finely-grated bread-crumbs, a tea-spoonful of chopped pars- ley, a tea-spoonful of thyme, and a shallot, finely minced ; add a little pepper and salt, and a grate or two of nutmeg, and work all together with a raw egg. Fill the haddock with this stuffing, sew it up with strong thread, truss it in the shape of the letter S, and boil it in salt and water. When done, take it up, drain, and serve garnished with parsley. Boil two eggs for seven minutes. When cold, powder the yolks, and mix them with half a pint of good melted butterHaddock, Boiled, with Egg Sauce. Add the whites, cut up into small dice, boil up once, and serve in a tureen. Time to boil a good-sized haddock, half an hour. Probable cost, variable, about 6d. per pound. Sufficient, a haddock weighing two pounds for three or four persons. Haddock, Broiled.— Draw and clean the fish, and wipe it perfectly dry. Dip it in oil or clarified butter, di-edge some flour over it, and broil it over a clear fire on a gridiron. Turn it two or three times, and when it is browned on both sides, serve it on a napkin, and send shrimp, or anchovy sauce to table with it. Time, ten or fifteen minutes. Probable cost, 9d. and upwards. Sufficient for two or three persons. Haddock, Broiled (another way). — An easier way of broiling haddock is to partially cook it in a Dutch oven' before a clear fire, and when the skin rises brush it over with egg, strew bread-crumbs, di-edge flour on it, and broU it as before. When browned it is done enough. Put a small lump of butter on the fish once or twice during the operation. It is more easily kejDt whole when cooked in this way. Time, altogether, half an hour. Probable cost, 9d. and upwards. Sufficient for two or three persons. Haddock, Cold. — Put a piece of butter the size of a large egg into a stewpan, and when melted add a tea-spoonful of salt, half a tea-si)oonful of pepper, one or two grates of nutmeg, and three-quarters of a pint of new milk or cream. When these are quite hot, add the cold haddock, which has been lifted from the bones in neat pieces and freed from skin, and eight or a dozen oysters, chopped small. When on the point of boiling turn the whole on a hot dish, and garnish with sippets of bread. Time, about half an hour. Probable cost, ex- clusive of the cold fish, 3s., if made with milk. Sufficient for four or five persons. Haddock, Cold, Curry of.— Pick the meat carefully from the bones in neat pieces, and remove the skin. For a pound of meat Haddock, Cold, Curry of