Fish Sauce No. 1

Ingredients

• Make a pint of drawn butter
• one tablespoonful of pepper sauce or Worcestershire sauce
• a little salt
• six hard-boiled eggs chopped fine

Method

1. 1

   Add the pepper sauce, salt, and chopped eggs to the drawn butter.

2. 2

   Pour over boiled fish and garnish with sliced lemon.

As published

This recipe was extracted from Original White House Cookbook (1887) by Hugo Ziemann, F. L. Gillette, Hugo Zimmerman, mrs gillette, page 99. The excerpt below is the record exactly as published.

a little salt and pepper; stir it until it is smooth and serve. Some of the meat of the lobster may be chopped fine and stirred into it. SAUCE FOR SALMON AND OTHER FISH. One cupful of milk heated to a boil and thickened with a tablespoonful of cornstarch previously wet up with cold water, the liquor from the sal- mon, one great spoonful of butter, one raw egg beaten light, the juice of half a lemon, mace and cayenne pepper to taste. Add the egg to thick- ened milk when you have stirred in the butter and liquor; take from the fire, season and let it stand in hot water three minutes, covered. Lastly put in lemon juice and turn out immediately. Pour it all over and around the salmon. SAUCE FOR BOILED COD. To ONE gill of boiling water add as much milk; stir into this while boil- ing two tablespoonfuls of butter gradually, one tablespoonful of flour wet up with cold water; as it thickens, the chopped yolk of one boiled egg, and one raw egg beaten light. Take directly from the fire, season with pepper, salt, a little chopped parsley and the juice of one lemon, and set covered in boiling water (but not over fire) five minutes, stirring occasionally. Pour part of the sauce over fish when dished; the rest in a boat. Serve mashed potatoes with it. SAUCES AND DRESSINGS. 151 FISH SAUCE. Ho. 1. Make a pint of drawn butter, add one tablespoonful of pepper sauce or Worcestershire sauce, a little salt and six hard-boiled eggs chopped fine. Pour over boiled fish and garnish with sliced lemon. Very nice. FISH SAUCE. No.

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