Curried Fish or Meat

Ingredients

• fish or meat
• cocoa-nut water
• a clove of garlic
• one or two onions
• a dessertspoonful of turmeric
• six green chillies
• a few slices of green ginger
• a moderate portion of salt
• two spoonfuls of fresh butter
• the juice of a lemon

Method

1. 1

   Prepare fish or meat, add to cocoa-nut water with garlic, onions, turmeric, chillies, ginger, and salt.

2. 2

   Boil, then add butter and lemon juice before serving with rice.

As published

This recipe was extracted from The thorough good cook (1895) by George Augustus Sala, page 178. The excerpt below is the record exactly as published.

Curried Fish or Meat. If fish is to be curried, clean and cut it into slices ; it prawns, add them whole; crab or lobster must be picked from the shells ; fowls or chicken carefully cut up into shreds; and butchers' meat similarlj'. Never send up your meat cut in joints or slices. Place either of these m cocoa-nut water, with a clove of garlic, and one or two onions shredded, a dessertspoonful of turmeric pounded, six green chillies divided in half, and a few slices of green ginger, with a moderate portion of salt, and let it boil ; as the meat, fowd, or fish is nearly dressed, add two spoonfuls of fresh butter, stirring all together. When the dressino- is nearly finished, add, lastly, some more cocoa-nut water, and as the curry boils, squeeze in the juice of a lemon

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