Catfish Stewed with Tomatoes

Ingredients

• each weighing about two ounces
• a very little butter
• one breakfast cupful of water
• one or two minced green onions
• a pod of red pepper
• Strain a can of tomatoes
• Serve with pieces of dry toast

Method

1. 1

   Slice the catfish and fry with a little butter until partly browned.

2. 2

   Add water, minced green onions, and red pepper.

3. 3

   Strain tomatoes over the fish and cook together for half an hour.

4. 4

   Serve with pieces of dry toast.

As published

This recipe was extracted from The Cook Book, by "Oscar" of the Waldorf (1896) by Oscar Tschirky, page 7. The excerpt below is the record exactly as published.

Catfish Stewed with Tomatoes. Slice the fish, each weighing about two ounces, and fry these with a very little butter or dripping. When they are partly browned and about half cooked, add one breakfast cupful of water, one or two minced green onions, and a pod of red pepper. Strain a can of tomatoes over a colander on to the fish, and cook together for half an hour. Serve with pieces of dry toast

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