Fish Stock with Red Wine

Ingredients

• Four lbs. of bones, heads, and trimmings of the fish to be served
• three-quarters lb. of minced white onions
• three oz. of parsley stalks
• two bay leaves
• four small sprigs of thyme
• four cloves of garlic
• two bottles of red wine
• four pints of water

Method

1. 1

   Combine all ingredients in a thick, tall stewpan, boil, skim, and cook for twenty to thirty minutes on moderate fire.

2. 2

   Strain the stock through a colander into a tureen.

Nutrition per serving

Estimated from matched ingredients across 4 servings.

As published

This recipe was extracted from A guide to modern cookery (1909) by A. Escoffier, page 13. The excerpt below is the record exactly as published.

FISH STOCK WITH RED WINE This stock is comparatively rarely used, because, in practice, it is naturally obtained in the cooking of the fish itself, as, for instance, in the case of the “‘ Matelotes.’’ Be this as it may, with the recent incursion of a custom which seems to demand, ever more and more, the serving of fish without bones, the following formula will be worthy of interest, as it is likely that its need will henceforth be felt with increasing urgency. Fish fumet with red wine may be prepared from all fresh- water fish, as well as from the remains of sole, whiting, chicken- turbot, and brill. It is generally better, however, to have re- course to the bones and remains of that fish which happens to be constituting the dish—that is to say, the bones and trimmings of sole in a stock for fillet of sole, the bones and trimmings of a chicken-turbot in a fumet for a chicken-turbot, and soon. The preparatory formula remains the same, whatever the kind of fish used may be. Quantities for making Four Quarts of Fumet with Red Wine.—Four lbs. of bones, heads, and trimmings of the fish to be served; three-quarters lb. of minced white onions; three oz. of parsley stalks, two bay leaves, four small sprigs of thyme, and four cloves of garlic; two bottles of red wine and four pints of water

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