Delicious Lenten Dish

Ingredients

• a whitefish
• one pint of milk
• two eggs
• a heaping tablespoonful of corn-starch
• two tablespoonfuls of butter
• a level teaspoonful of salt
• a little pepper
• a trifle of nutmeg

Method

1. 1

   Parboil the fish and pick apart.

2. 2

   Make a sauce with milk, eggs, corn-starch, butter, salt, and pepper.

3. 3

   Layer fish and sauce in a buttered baking dish, cover with bread-crumbs and nutmeg, and bake until golden brown.

As published

This recipe was extracted from The national course in home economics (1917) by Ruth Allen Beezley, page 64. The excerpt below is the record exactly as published.

one pint of milk, thicken with flour; when cool add two well-beaten eggs and one- fourth of a pound of butter; put in baking dish a layer of fish, then layer of sauce, until the dish is full; cover the top with cracker crumbs and bake one hour. Minerva Van Allkn. DELICIOUS LENTEN DISH. Parboil a whitefish and pick apart. Make a sauce of one pint of mflk, two eggs, a heaping tablespoonful of corn-starch, two tablespoonfuls of butter, a level teaspoonful of salt and a little pepper. Butter a baking- dish, put in a layer of fish, pour over some of the sauce, grate a trifle of nutmeg

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