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The Swedish, French, American cook book

1918

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Presented as published in 1918. Historical recipes may not meet modern food-safety standards. Cook from the modern interpretation, not the original instructions.
Put through the machine about six times; beat through a fine sieve; then put it in a large saucepan on ice and stir with a whisk, adding cream and milk mixed (say a quart). [Sometimes the fish will take much more milk and cream than at other times; it depends upon the quality of the fish.] When half the amount of cream and milk has been added, add some salt and pepper, then more cream and milk; after that, try a little in hot water on the stove, again and again adding more cream and milk until the mousse is of the right consistence. Butter a ring mould; decorate, with strips of Spanish pepper, daisies made from truffles at the bottom of the mould and branches all around; then fill the mould with the mousse, through a paper bag, so as not to disturb the decoration. Hammer it down well; put in hot water; cook for about twelve to fifteen minutes, well covered, in a slow oven; then turn out on a paper napkin; serve with any kind of fish sauce (lobster, oyster crab, truffle, or hollandaise) in the centre. If with lobster sauce, decorate with the claws all around, and parsley. Fish dish for dinner. Timbale of Striped Bass ( Bar raye en Timbale) a la Maria [See recipe: Mousse of Striped Bass.] Butter timbale cups well and decorate with strips of Spanish pepper, and then daisies, branches, and roses made from truffles. Fill with mousse; cook in hot water in oven for about eight to ten minutes — well covered. Arrange on a platter with a lobster sauce all around and garnish with parsley and lobster claws. Serve for luncheon or supper. Mousse of Striped Bass with Spinach a la Princesse * Mousse de Bar raye , aux Epinards, a la Princesse See recipe: Mousse of Striped Bass, and decorate the mould the same way, with daisies of truffles on the bottom but branches of white cooked egg on the top. Fill bottom of mould with mousse of striped bass up to where the mould is joined; then mix to one cup of mousse one and a half cups of the spinach that has been cooked greCh and gone through the machine several times; fill the top of the mould with this spinach mousse; cook in hot water in oven — well covered — about twelve to fifteen minutes (according to heat of oven). When cooked, turn out on a paper napkin. Serve with any kind of fish sauce. [If shrimp or lobster sauce, garnish with the claws, or unpeeled shrimps.] Fish entree for luncheon or dinner. Souffle of Striped Bass with Spinach a la Princesse Bar raye souffle, aux Epinards, a la Princesse Butter small individual double moulds; decorate half of the moulds with truffles as a daisy, or any design desired. Fill with the mousse of striped bass the moulds that are decorated; then fill the other moulds with the mousse of spinach. [See recipe: Mousse of Bass with Spinach a la Princesse.] Put two moulds together; put in hot water — well covered — and cook for about eight to twelve minutes in a slow oven. Serve on a paper doily or napkin with hollandaise sauce in a sauceboat at the side. Stuffed Striped Bass with Crab a la Hammond Bar raye, farci de Crabe, a la Hammond Stuffed Striped Bass with Crab a la Hammond