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The household cook book

1902

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Presented as published in 1902. Historical recipes may not meet modern food-safety standards. Cook from the modern interpretation, not the original instructions.
SALMON STEAKS — Salmon steaks are good broiled and served with piccalilli heated and piled in the middle, and with a hot sauce poured round, but not over the fish. A very simple but delicious way of cooking salmon is to cut it in slices, and grill it, serving it at once with a good squeeze of lemon juice, and a dust of cayenne on v^ach side. Large Trout cooked in the same way are equally good. SALMON TOAST — Soak 2 oz. of bread crumbs in cold milL and mix with a can of salmon which has been worked to a paste. FISH 75 Add the beaten yolks of 2 eggs, season with salt, pepper, a little nut- meg, and the grated peel of | a lemonSalmon Toast. Put into a dish, and on the top place beaten whites of the eggs. Bake in a moderate oven, and when the top is slightly brown, it is ready to serve. CANNED SALMON — A good way to serve it for breakfast, is to heat it, add pepper and salt to season, and serve on slices of toast, pouring over milk, thickened with flour and butterCanned Salmon. Another way to use canned salmon is to put the can for about 20 minutes in a kettle of hot water; then turn it into a dish, and pour on drawn butter, to which finely cut hard boiled eggs and chopped parsley has been added; eat with mashed potatoes. SALMON, GERMAN STYLE— Take 2 pints sauerkraut, boil. drain, pile it on a dish, and make a hole in the center; have 1 lb. hot canned salmonSalmon, German Style ready, put it in the hole; heat and season the salmon liquid, pour it over the dish and serve. SMOKED SALMON, BROILED.— Smoked salmon is nice washed, drained, and broiled nicely. Then put it on a warm dish, spread on butter, and serve. The Salmon is found in both the Atlantic and Pacific oceans. There are many varieties. Although the fish is considered most delicious when fresh, it is said to be more wholesome when kept 1 or 2 days. It is very nutritious, but should be eaten in moderation. SARDINES. These are nice broiled. Do not break them in taking from the can. Scrape off the skin carefully, and broil to a delicate brown between double wire broilers. Then put them in a hot dish and serve with lemon juice squeezed over them. They are also nice with orange juice. To serve sardines, the oil can be drained from them, and then place them on any small ornamental dish. Some people cover them with fresh olive oil, and others do not, as tastes differ. They can be garnished with parsley, pepper-grass or lettuce. Set a dish of quartered lemons near them. SARDINES ON TOAST.- -Take 3 eggs, 3 sardines, 3 slices of buttered toast. Bone the sardines and pound them in a mortar with a pinch of salt, a little pepper, and cayenne. Spread this paste on the hot buttered toast. Heat |- pint of creaSardines on Toastm, and, when hot, add the eggs well beaten with a Dover beater. Stir well until almost boiling; then pour it over the sardines and toast, and send to the table. Sufficient for 3 persons. 76 FISH