Catfish Stewed with Tomatoes

Ingredients

• 5 lbs net catfish
• a cup of water
• a minced green onion or two
• a can of tomatoes

Method

1. 1

   Cut fish into slices, fry in a pan with little butter until browned.

2. 2

   Add water, green onion, and strained tomatoes.

3. 3

   Cook together for about 30 minutes.

Nutrition per serving

Estimated from matched ingredients across 5 servings.

As published

This recipe was extracted from Cooking for profit (1886) by Jessup Whitehead, page 315. The excerpt below is the record exactly as published.

Catfish stewed with tomatoes (5 lbs net, steaks 60 with sauce, 68 cents.) Potatoes Hollandaise. Boiled smoked tongue (25 cents.) Roast beef {3 ribs short, 6 lbs 80 cents.) Civet of rabbit, a la Chasseur (8 rabbits 100, with trimmings, 125 cents.) Chicken giblets, a la Parmentier (20 orders, 20 cents.) Charlotte of apples, Francaise (36 or- ders, 40 cents.) Baked sweet potatoes 20, squash 8, stewed onions 6, rice 6, beets 5, potatoes 8 (53 cents.) _ Indian fruit pudding (No. 161 doubled, 24 orders, 36 cents.) Blanc mange with cream (2 qts and cream, 45 cents.) Telly roll, white cake (2^ lbs 26cents.) Nuts, raisins, apples, cheese, crackers, pickles (55 cents.) Milk, cream 60, butter, bread, coffee, tea, sugar 52 {112 cents.) Total, $7 20; 55 parsons; 13 cents plate. 1062— Verm cell! Soup. For general directions about making soup stock, or bouillon, as the French call it, read No. ir5, the quantities to be according to the number of people. The stock having been strained into a clean soup pot a number of simple soups without names can be made by even inex perieaced persons by adding a mixtur- COOKING FOR PROFIT. '63 of vegetables chopped or cut small and either rice, barley, macaroni or nudelsor the following : Take 6 quarts stock. 5 cups minced vegetables — being cab- bage, onion, turnip, carrot, celery, squash, pumpkin, part or all as may suit. 6 ounces or 2 or 3 cups vermicelli broken small. Boil and season. It will be thick enough if cooked until the vermicelli is well done. 1063— Catfish Stewed with Tomatoes. Cut fish in slices, each about 2 ounces, and fry (saute) them in a frying pan with very little butter or drippings. When they are partly browned and about half- cooked add a cup of water, a minced green onion or two and pod ot red pep- per; then strain a can of tomatoes

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