Curried Salmon Steak

Ingredients

• one or two slices of salmon
• brush over with best olive oil
• a mixture composed of bread crumbs
• a little curry powder
• some finely chopped onion
• some finely chopped parsley
• a few tiny pieces of butter
• about a table-spoonful of piccalilli
• four pickled French gherkins

Method

1. 1

   Season the salmon, brush with olive oil, and sprinkle with the mixture of bread crumbs, curry powder, onion, parsley, and butter.

2. 2

   Place in a buttered paper-bag and cook in a hot oven for 15-20 minutes.

3. 3

   Serve with a mixture of gherkins and piccalilli heated with curry sauce.

As published

This recipe was extracted from The paper-bag cookery manual (1911) by Charles Herman Senn, page 13. The excerpt below is the record exactly as published.

Curried Salmon Steak. Procure one or two slices of salmon (middle cut), wipe them with a damp cloth, season both sides with salt and pepper, and brush over with best olive oil. Sprinkle over the top of each a mixture composed of bread crumbs, a little curry powder, some finely chopped onion and parsley, also a few tiny pieces of butter. Slip carefully into a buttered “Express” paper-bag, fold over the end and fasten with clips, then place in a fairly hot oven on a grid or trivet, and cook for about 15 to 20 minutes. When done, slit open the bag and place the fish on a hot dish. Have ready the following mixture: Cut into fine shreds four pickled French gherkins, and mix with about a table-spoonful of 38 THE PAPER-BAG COOKERY MANUAL. piccalilli, also cut into shreds. Heat this up with a little curry sauce, and serve with the salmon steaks. Note. — A dish of plainly cooked rice (see Vegetable Recipes) should be handed round at the same time. Salmon Cutlets with Fine Herbs. Cut from the middle-cut or jowl end of salmon the required number of slices, not too thickly, then cut each in half ; this will resemble as near as possible cutlet shapes; wipe each with a damp cloth and trim slightly. Mix on a plate some oiled butter with some finely chopped parsley

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