Boiled Haddocks with Crab Sauce

Ingredients

• four Haddocks
• igall. of water
• a bit of veal
• three peeled onions
• a small bunch of parsley
• a little black pepper
• a little cayenne
• salt
• the thinly-pared rind of half a lemon
• 1 table -spoonful of ketchup
• the strained juice of a lemon
• J pint of white wine
• 2oz. of butter
• some sifted breadcrumbs
• grated nutmeg
• the beaten whites of two eggs

Method

1. 1

   Put the heads, fins, and skins of the Haddocks in a saucepan with water, veal, onions, parsley, black pepper, cayenne, salt, lemon rind, ketchup, lemon juice, and white wine.

2. 2

   Boil gently for an hour.

3. 3

   Make forcemeat with minced Haddock, parsley, breadcrumbs, nutmeg, pepper, salt, and egg whites.

4. 4

   Form into balls and fry until light brown.

5. 5

   Strain the liquor, add butter with kneaded flour, stir until it boils, then add beaten eggs mixed with cream, crab meat, and forcemeat balls.

6. 6

   Heat without boiling.

7. 7

   Serve over boiled Haddocks.

Nutrition per serving

Estimated from matched ingredients across 6 servings.

As published

This recipe was extracted from The encyclopaedia of practical cookery (1892) by Theodore Francis Garrett, William A. Rawson, page 27. The excerpt below is the record exactly as published.

Boiled Haddocks with Crab Sauce. — Put the heads, fins, and skins of four Haddocks in a saucepan over the fire with igall. of water, together with a bit of veal, three peeled onions, a small bunch of parsley, a little black pepper, cayenne, and salt, the thinly-pared rind of half a lemon, 1 table -spoonful of ketchup, the strained juice of a lemon, and J pint of white wine, and boil gently for an hour. Make some forcemeat with the meat of a small boiled Haddock minced, and mixed with some chopped parsley, sifted breadcrumbs, grated nutmeg, a little pepper and salt, and the beaten whites of two eggs. Boll this forcemeat into balls, and fry them a light brown in boiling lard. Strain the liquor, and put it back over the fire ; add 2oz. of butter

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