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Mrs. Ericsson Hammond's salad appetizer cook book...

1924

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Presented as published in 1924. Historical recipes may not meet modern food-safety standards. Cook from the modern interpretation, not the original instructions.
Secure medium-sized smelts; wash them, open them at the head and tail and carefully remove the inside and bones; stuff. Put them on a buttered pan in a curved position; sprinkle them with pepper and salt and put some stock in the pan; steam in the oven with a tight cover, time from six to eight minutes. Leave until cold and then glaze them with white aspic. * In the mean¬ time make a ring foundation of rice (see recipe How to Boil Rice on page 289 in my large book, “The Swedish, French, American Cook Book”). Put the foundation on a platter and arrange the smelts one after the other as the illustration shows. With a fluted cutter cut out the foundation in the curve of the smelts; garnish in each curve with a quarter of lemon dipped in chopped truffles; on the inside of the ring fense with finely cut strips of green pepper that has been left in ice-water to become crisp. Fill the ring with Aurorian sauce and sprinkle in the center with truffles; gar¬ nish with parsley. This is a cold fish entree for lunch, dinner, or supper. Filling. To one cup of fish mousse add a half cup of finely chopped green pepper; season with pepper and salt to tasteStuffed Smelts with Green Pepper a la Florence. Shrimps in Aspic a la Tatiana Crevettes en Aspic a la Tatiana Cook two pounds of shrimps; leave in the water until cold; peel the shrimps, leaving sufficient of them for decoration; split the shrimps in half lengthwise. Decorate the mould all around and fill with the chartreuse; leave on ice until ready to serve; dip them in warm water and turn out on a platter. Decorate all around each shrimp with mayonnaise mixed with some gelatine; put it in a paper bag that holds a ribbon tube and make a fancy border all around each of the shrimps. Garnish with decorated shrimps and lemons around. Fill with Aurorian sauce and decorate a mayonnaise border around the sauce and in the center with a cut truffle. Serve as a salad or as a cold dish. It also makes a com¬ plete salad by garnishing with lettuce around. Chartreuse. Two cups of cooked shrimps that have been put through the machine once; add to it five spoons of dissojved Cox’s gelatine, a half cup of milk, stir on ice; add four large spoons of mayonnaise dressing, and last add four spoons of whipped creamShrimps in Aspic a la Tatiana. 112 MRS. ERICSSON HAMMOND’S COOK BOOK Smoked Sturgeon in Aspic a la Senorita Esturgeon fume ert Aspic a la Senorita For six persons take one pound of sturgeon. Put little individual fish moulds on ice and glaze them with aspic; line them with smoked sturgeon and fill them with sturgeon; chop the rest of the sturgeon, add to it one finely chopped green pepper; mix it with one and a half cups of tomato aspicSmoked Sturgeon in Aspic a la Senorita and fill the moulds; leave on ice until ready to serve. Turn out on slices of tomatoes and decorate them with whipped cream through a narrow tube and make an eye from lemon and truffles. Garnish them around with strips of green pepper and lemons, also parsley in the center of the dish. This is served as a cold fish or with a salad. It also makes a beautiful appetizer by using small moulds and turning them out on buttered bread. Stewed Oysters a la Livournaise Huitres en ragout a la Livournaise Stewed Oysters a la Livournaise