Bouillabaisse

Ingredients

• Place a sufficient quantity of mixed fish
• add some sliced onions
• one or two sliced carrots
• three shallots
• two unpicked cloves of garlic
• a bunch of thyme and parsley
• five or six cloves
• two bay-leaves
• half a teaspoonful of capsicum
• a little olive oil
• salt and pepper to taste
• Pour into the above mixture a couple of quarts of water
• mix a teaspoonful of saffron

Method

1. 1

   Place a sufficient quantity of mixed fish, such as soles, whiting, gurnet and flounders into a saucepan, having cut them into pieces, and add some sliced onions, one or two sliced carrots, three shallots, two unpicked cloves of garlic, a bunch of thyme and parsley, five or six cloves, two bay-leaves, half a teaspoonful of capsicum, a little olive oil, and salt and pepper to taste.

2. 2

   Pour into the above mixture a couple of quarts of water and boil gently for half an hour, the lid being placed on the pan.

3. 3

   When sufficiently cooked, drain the fish and arrange on a hot dish.

4. 4

   Then mix a teaspoonful of saffron with the soup and pass through a pointed strainer into a soup-tureen.

5. 5

   Serve the soup with the fish and a plate of croutons of fried bread or sippets of toast.

Nutrition per serving

As published

This recipe was extracted from The Cook Book, by "Oscar" of the Waldorf (1896) by Oscar Tschirky, page 6. The excerpt below is the record exactly as published.

Bouillabaisse. Place a sufllicient quantity of mixed fish, such as soles, whiting, gurnet and flound- ers into a saucepan, having cut them into pieces, and add some sliced onions, one or two sliced carrots, three shallots, two unpicked cloves of garlic, a bunch of thyme and parsley, five or six cloves, two bay-leaves, half a teaspoonful of capsicum, a little olive oil, and salt and pepper to taste. Pour into the above mixture a couple of quarts of water and boil gently for half an hour, the lid being placed on the pan. When suflS- ciently cooked drain the fish and arrange on a hot dish. Then mix a teaspoonful of saffron

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