Eels, Fricasseed

Ingredients

• four pounds of skinned eels
• equal quantities of sherry wine
• and water
• twenty oysters
• a bunch of herbs
• an onion stuck with five or six cloves
• some parsley
• pepper to taste
• salt to taste
• cayenne to taste
• a quarter of a pint of cream
• about an ounce of butter

Method

1. 1

   Cut eels into four-inch pieces, cover with sherry and water, add oysters, herbs, onion, parsley, and seasonings.

2. 2

   Stew for one hour, strain gravy, thicken with cream and butter, and pour over fish.

As published

This recipe was extracted from Cassell's dictionary of cookery (1892) by Cassell & Company, page 483. The excerpt below is the record exactly as published.

salt to taste. EoU up the eel, beginning with the broad end, and bind it tightly with a tape. Boil down the backbone, head, and tail with pepper, salt, mace, and vinegar. Put the eel to this liquor, and stew about three-quarters of an hour, and when tender set it aside. Boil up the liquor with more vinegar and spice, if required, and when cool add it to the fish. Probable cost, 6d. to Is. per pound. Eels (en Matelote).— Cut up some very small onions — -five or six of them — and brown them with a little butter and flour in a stew- pan. When of a light brown, add about half a pint of good broth and the same quantity of port wine, a few mushrooms, a laurel-leaf, salt, pepper, and nutmeg to taste. Have ready two pounds of eels, divided into lengths of three inches, simmer them in this gravy till tender, then remove the eels and place them high in the centre of a dish. Thicken the sauce with butter and flour, and serve it hot poured over. Time to stew the eels, half an hour. Probable cost, 2s. 6d. for this quantity. Sufficient for four or five persons. Eels, Fricasseed. — Cut up four pounds of skinned eels into pieces of four inches in length, put them into a ste^ijan with equal quantities of sherry wine and water, enough to cover them ; add twenty oj'sters, a bunch of herbs, an onion stuck with five or six cloves, some parsley, pepper, salt, and cayenne. When the eels have stewed one hour remove them to a dish, strain the gravy, and put it back into the stewpan with a quarter of a pint of cream

Cook this with the app: pantry check, scaling, and the assistant.