Creamed Canned Fish

Ingredients

• one tablespoonful of butter
• one tablespoonful of flour
• a quarter teaspoonful of salt
• a dash of pepper
• one cupful of milk
• can of lobster, shrimps or salmon

Method

1. 1

   Melt butter, add flour, salt, and pepper.

2. 2

   Gradually stir in milk until thick.

3. 3

   Add canned fish and boil gently for three minutes.

4. 4

   Serve on buttered toast, garnished with parsley.

As published

This recipe was extracted from Cookery for little girls (1910) by Olive Hyde Foster, page 21. The excerpt below is the record exactly as published.

one tablespoonful of butter, salt to your own taste, and allow to come to a boil. Have ready four squares of nicely browned toast, put in a hot vegetable dish, pour over the milk, clap on the 69 COOKERY FOR LITTLE GIRLS cover, and serve at once. Some people like the milk thickened with a teaspoonful of flour that has first been moistened with a little cold milk, but I prefer it without. Every housekeeper should impress on her young daughter the importance of keeping on hand a small quantity of canned goods to provide for the unexpected guest, and this should include sardines, salmon, shrimps, lobster, French peas, olives and orange marmalade. These things will all keep for months in a cool place, yet are in- dispensable in an emergency. The can of shrimps, opened and placed in cold water for a little while, will taste as good as the fresh, and the salmon, with the skin and bones removed, will be ready on short notice to be served in a num- ber of ways. CANNED FISH SALADS For salad, take either shrimps, lobster or sal- mon, and after breaking in small pieces, add an equal amount of celery, season with salt and moisten with salad dressing. Serve on lettuce. CREAMED CANNED FISH If our small cook wishes to serve a hot dish, however, in a hurry for company, she can make 70 FOR THE UNEXPECTED GUEST to use with her canned fish, the favorite white sauce. For this she must first melt one table- spoonful of butter and add to it one tablespoon- ful of flour, a quarter teaspoonful of salt, a dash of pepper, and lastly, after mixing well, one cup- ful of milk, stirring all the time until thick. After boiling two minutes put in the can of lobster, shrimps or salmon

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