Cape Fish Pie

Ingredients

• Remains of Cold Boiled Fish
• Tomato Sauce
• 2 Onions fried in butter or fat
• Maslied Potatoes
• i Egg
• Pepper
• Salt
• Mustard

Method

1. 1

   Clear the fish from bones and break into pieces.

2. 2

   Mix with onion, seasoning, butter, tomato sauce, half the egg, and some mashed potatoes.

3. 3

   Pack into a buttered pie-dish, layer with mashed potatoes on top, and brush with egg.

4. 4

   Bake for 45 minutes.

Nutrition per serving

As published

This recipe was extracted from Hilda's "where is it?" of recipes (1891) by Hildagonda J. Duckitt, page 54. The excerpt below is the record exactly as published.

peppercorns into a little muslin bag, and add ; let the chicken simmer in this for half an hour, then add two spoonfuls of vermicelli, one spoonful of sago, a good lump of butter ; stir carefully, as the sago and vermicelli are apt to burn. Just before taking out of the saucepan, whip the yolk of an egg with i«7 P] PIE (FISH— MACARONI). the juice of a lemon, stir in with the chicken j it thickens the gravy, and gives a nice creamy look. Let this cool, then put into a pie-dish with slices of hard-boiled egg and ham between, and make a few little balls of butter and flour rolled together, and put in the pie-dish. Cover with pie crust nicely rolled and ornamented. Brush with yolk of egg mixed with milk. Bake in a quick oven for one and a half hours. Note. — If the chicken is very tender, it can be put into the pie-dish uncooked, and will be equally nice, but will take much longer to bake. The old Dutch way is to have the meat parboiled. P/£ (FISH). (A Cape Dish.) Ingredients. Remains of Cold Boiled Fisfi. Tomato Sauce. 2 Onions fried in butter or fat. Maslied Potatoes. Pepper, Salt, Mustard. i Egg

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