Baked Pike

Ingredients

• a pike
• slices of onion
• two bay leaves
• a piece of butter
• one-half pint of sour cream
• some breadcrumbs
• some grated Parmesan cheese

Method

1. 1

   Scale and clean the pike, cut into slices, and place in a baking dish.

2. 2

   Add onion slices, bay leaves, butter, pepper, and salt, then pour in sour cream.

3. 3

   Bake for twenty-five minutes, basting often.

4. 4

   Strew breadcrumbs and Parmesan over the fish, brown under a salamander, and serve with broth mixed with lemon juice, salt, and pepper.

As published

This recipe was extracted from The Cook Book, by "Oscar" of the Waldorf (1896) by Oscar Tschirky, page 17. The excerpt below is the record exactly as published.

Baked Pike. Scale and clean a pike, cut it into slices and place itin a bakingdish; put in some slices of onion, two bay leaves, a piece of butter, some pepper and salt, and one-half pint of sour cream. Bake it for twenty-five minutes in a brisk oven, basting often with the cream. Strew some breadcrumbs and grated Parmesan cheese ove

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