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German cookery for the English kitchen

1906

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Presented as published in 1906. Historical recipes may not meet modern food-safety standards. Cook from the modern interpretation, not the original instructions.
Serve on a long dish, garnished with parsley and slices of lemon. Hand round with it oiled butter, Dutch sauce, whipped cream with horseradish, etc. {See section " Sauces " for the various recipes.) Seezunge gekooht. (Boiled Sole.) Reckon about \ lb. sole Time of Preparation : | hour. to each Person. Smaller fish are boiled without being skinned. Larger ones should always be skinned. To do so, cut through Fish. 31 the skin vety carefully just round the tail and by the fins, and loosen it by slipping a knife under it. Then hold the fish firmly by the tail with a cloth and draw off the skin carefully from the tail towards the head. Both the white and the grey skins, must be removed. Clean the fish well, lay it on a fish-slice and put it on to boil in cold water, strongly salted (i oz. salt to the quart of water) and with a little lemon juice in itBoiled Sole (Seezunge gekooht). Bring to the boil and then stand on one side to simmer very gently for another 10 minutes. Serve on a hot dish, garnished with parsley. Dutch, Mushroom or Oyster Sauce should be handed round with it. {See various recipes in section ** Sauces.") FlimdtP gekooht. (Boiled Plaice.) Skin and clean the plaice. Strew salt over it and leave to stand for 2 hours. Then boil in the same manner as sole {see previous recipe), adding onions to the waterBoiled Plaice (FlimdtP gekooht). Serve with Dutch Sauce. Forellen. (Trout.) Clean the trout thoroughly, leave the scales on and pour some hot vinegar over them to make them bluish. Then stand on one side for a little while. Pass a thread of cotton through the head and tailTrout (Forellen) of each fish, tying it together, so mat the fish forms a ring. Fill the fish-kettle with very slightly salted water. When the water is boiling furiously, plunge in the drainer on which the trout have been arranged. Then immediately remove from the fire again. Small trout are sufficiently cooked by the mere plunging into boiling water — larger ones should be allowed to remain in the water for 3 minutes after the fish-kettle has been removed from the fire. 32 Fische. Serve on a dish covered with a serviette, first removing the threads carefully. Garnish with parsley, crisp lettuce leaves and slices of lemon. 1^.;/;' Fresh butter in little balls or rolls, or oiled butter with chopped parsley in it, should be handed round with the trout, which must always be served very hot. Fische in Sauce gekocht* {Fish Boiled in Sauce.) Fisoh In weisser Sauoe Oder ^ner Fiaoh. (Fish in White Sauce.) Far 8 Persons, Time of Preparation : 2 hours. 2 teaspoonsful chopped parsley. I teaspoonful chopped onion. I gill cream. 3^ lbs. fish. 2^ pints white sauce. 6 oz. butter. lo sweet almonds, grated. A pinch of salt and pepper. Fish suitable for this method of preparation are : Haddock, pike, perch, fresh herring, plaice, tench and cod. Fish to be boiled in white sauce must be most thoroughly cleaned or the flavour of, the sauce will suffer. Scrape off all the scales, as well as cleaning. With haddock, cod, herring and plaice remove the head altogether ; with the other nsb, it may be cooked with it, but should be well scraped. Cut the fish when cleaned into medium pieces, and place (in cases where the heads are retained, the heads should be placed lowermost) in 2^ pints of white sauce {see recipe, page 55), which should be hot, but not boiling. Bring slowly to the boil, add the butter, chopped onions, grated almonds, pepper and the cream, and finally, when the fish is done, the finely-chopped parsley. Then stand on one side for 25 minutes, not allowing further boiling. Fish. 33 Should fresh herrings be taken for this dish, the white sauce should be quite cold when they are put into it, and should then be brought quickly to the boil. Seezungeiipolleii in Ghamplgnoii-Sanoe. (Rolled Soles in Mushroom Sauce.) For 8 Persons. Time qf Preparation : 2 hours. 4^ lbs. soles. Fish in Tomato Sauce (Fisoh in Tomatensauoe)