Fish Cakes

Ingredients

• boiling down the heads, tails, fins, and bones of any fish, with water enough to cover them
• Add onion
• herbs
• pepper
• salt
• a very little mace
• mix a third part of the quantity of bread-crumbs
• bind with white of egg
• moisten with melted butter

Method

1. 1

   Make a savory gravy by boiling fish parts with enough water to cover.

2. 2

   Add onion, herbs, pepper, salt, and mace.

3. 3

   Mix minced fish with bread-crumbs and flavoring, moisten with butter, bind with egg white, and fry until light brown.

4. 4

   Stew gently for a quarter of an hour.

As published

This recipe was extracted from Harper's cook book encyclopædia (1902), page 129. The excerpt below is the record exactly as published.

Fish Cakes. — Make a savory gravy by boiling down the heads, tails, fins, and bones of any fish, with water enough to cover them. Add onion, herbs, pepper, salt, and a very little mace. With the meat, when well minced, mix a third part of the quantity of bread - crumbs, and a flavoring of the same kind as that used for gravy. Moisten with melted butter, bind with white of egg

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