Fish a la Japonaise
From Luncheons, 1902
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Presented as published in 1902. Historical recipes may not meet modern food-safety standards. Cook from the modern interpretation below, not the original instructions.
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This recipe was extracted from Luncheons (1902) by Mary Ronald, page 25. The excerpt below is the record exactly as published.
ISH A LA JAPONNAISE Make a creamed mince of any kind of fish, or use a fish forcemeat. Canned salmon is very good for the purpose. 68 LUNCHEONS Place the creamed fish on a piece of stiff paper and mold it into the form of a fish. Roll some pie paste very thin. Lay a piece of the paste on one end of the mince and shape it into the form of a fish's tail. Cut the paste into circles of half an inch diameter, nsing a pastry-tube if a small vegetable-cutter is not at hand. Beginning at the tail, cover the molded fish with little rounds of paste, placing them in even overlapping layers to imitate scales, and mold a piece of pastry to imitate a head and fins. Use half a cranberry or a turned vegetable to imitate an eye. Brush the paste over lightly with yolk of egg
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