Baked Carp
From The encyclopædia of practical cookery, 1890
Serves 6
Presented as published in 1890. Historical recipes may not meet modern food-safety standards. Cook from the modern interpretation below, not the original instructions.
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This recipe was extracted from The encyclopædia of practical cookery (1890) by Theodore Francis Garrett, page 148. The excerpt below is the record exactly as published.
court-bouillon and white wine in the proportion of lqt. of the former to ^ pint of the latter. Put the kettle on the fire and let the liquid boil for five minutes ; then remove the Carp, and put it in a moderate oven for an-hour-and-a-half to bake, basting it frequently. When it is done, take it out, drain it, and pour Carp — continued. its stock through a sieve, putting the fish back again into the kettle to keep hot. Prepare a little brown sauce with the stock, and, when clarified and strained, put it into a flat stewpan with a handful of mushroom trimmings, pour a wineglassful of white wine into it, and reduce ; then pass it through a seive, and add jib. of good butter to it. Place the Carp on an oval dish, and garnish it on both sides with a bunch of quenelles of whitings, one of mushrooms, and one of blanched olives ; glaze the larding with a paste-brush, and pour a little sauce over the other parts of the fish and a little at the bottom of the dish. Put the soft roes into the remainder of the sauce, and serve in a sauceboat. Boiled Carp. — (1) Clean and wash one or two Carp, put them into a saucepan, pour over sufficient rich beef-gravy to cover, and add a bunch of sweet herbs, one onion, three or four cloves, and salt to taste. Put the saucepan on a moderate fire, and cook gently for about an hour or until the fish is done. Pour a pint of strong beef-gravy into a saucepan with 2 wineglassfuls of port wine ; make this hot and add the strained juice of half a lemon. Place the Carp on a dish, pour over the hot, lemon-flavoured liquor, and serve at once. (2) Take a Carp, scale and clean it, and stuff the inside with some firm fish forcemeat mixed with cooked fine herbs. Put the fish, belly downwards, on the drainer of a fish-kettle with a good supply of court-bouillon and red wine mixed in the pro- portion of lqt. of the former to i pint of the latter. Boil up the liquid, and when boiling remove the kettle to the side of the fire, but keep it boiling till the fish is done, which for a Carp of 81b. or 101b. would be about an-hour-and-a-half. Next take an oval dish and put two small pieces of fried bread on it as a support to the fish ; then cover over the dish with a napkin folded twice, and put the fish on it between the two pieces of bread. Garnish the dish with fresh parsley and large cooked crayfish. Prepare a sauce — either genoa or bordeaux — well beaten up with a little of the fish stock and mixed up with a garnish of crayfish tails. Put the sauce in a boat and serve. Matelote sauce may be used instead of the two named. (3) Scale and wash a couple of Carp, remove the livers and roes, and put them on one side ; put the fish in a fish-kettle with a bunch of sweet herbs, one sliced onion, a small stick of horseradish, a lump of salt, lqt. of cider, sufficient water to cover the fish, and boil it. Chop two shallots, two boned anchovies, and finely mince the liver ; put them in a saucepan with 1 table-spoonful of soy ; season with salt, black pepper, and a small quantity of cayenne pepper ; pour in 1 pint of port Fig. 338. Boiled Carp. wine, and about | pint of the cooking-liquor of the fish. Boil the sauce about fifteen minutes, then strain it through a fine hair sieve, return it to the saucepan, put in loz. of butter that has been worked with 1 table- spoonful of flour, and stir it over the fire until thickened. Fry the roe of the Carp in butter. Put the Carp on a hot dish, pour the sauce over it, garnish it with the roe, slices of lemon, and fried parsley, arranged in alternate groups, and serve (see Fig. 338). Bouchees of Carp Soft Bioes. — Roll out some puff paste at six turns to about lin. in thickness, cut it into rounds with a fluted tin cutter about 2 lin. in diameter, then with a plain tin cutter l£in. in diameter cut three-quarters through the centre of each ; arrange these on a buttered baking-sheet a short distance from each other, and bake them in a quick oven. Trim away the gut from ten or twelve soft roes of Carp, steep them, blanch them, then cut them into middling-sized pieces. Take the cases out of the oven when cooked, run a For details respecting Culinary Processes, Utensils, Sauces, &c., referred to, see under their special heads. THE ENCYCLOPAEDIA OF PRACTICAL COOKERY. Carp — continued. knife round the circle in the centre, and lift out the piece of paste, that having to form the lid ; scoop the cases out, pour a small quantity of sauce that has been finished with cray- fish butter, or anchovy cream, in each, put in a piece of the roe, pour in a little more of the sauce, and put the lids on. Arrange the boucheea on a folded napkin or an ornamental dish-paper that has been placed on a hot dish, and serve. Braised Carp. — Take a large Carp (about 41b. or 51b.), and after thoroughly scalding, drawing, and cleansing the fish stuff it with some quenelle forcemeat of whiting. Care must be taken to remove what is called the gall stone, which is found at the back of the head, for if not removed it will impart a bitter taste, and the flavour of the fish will be spoiled. Lay the fish upon a drainer, mask over with some more force- meat, and ornament with some fillet of soles and tails of crayfish, keeping the head clear. Cover the whole with well- buttered paper, moisten with white wine, and let it braise gently upon the fire for about an hour. When done, place it upon a dish, garnish round with crayfish, and pour oyer thick German sauce made with a little of the liquor in which the Carp has been braised, garnish the body with attelettes of crayfish (see Fig. 339), and send to table. Braised Carp a la Chef de Cuisine. — Cut into 2in. pieces a well-cleaned Carp
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Cook this with the app: pantry check, scaling, and the assistant.