Fried Fillets of Sole

Ingredients

• two soles
• salt
• pepper
• white wine
• milk
• flour
• lard
• fried parsley
• slices of lemon

Method

1. 1

   Skin and put the soles in a deep dish, season with herbs, salt, and pepper, cover with white wine, and soak for half an hour.

2. 2

   Fillet the soles, dip in milk, dredge with flour, and fry in lard until browned.

3. 3

   Serve on a hot dish garnished with fried parsley and lemon slices.

Nutrition per serving

As published

This recipe was extracted from Banquets of the nations (1911) by Robert H. Christie, page 59. The excerpt below is the record exactly as published.

Fried Fillets of Sole Stewed Lamb Cutlets Venison Pasties Roast Swan Roast Beef and Yorkshire Pudding Roast Pheasants Plum Pudding Junket Ice Pudding Fruit BANQUETS OF THE NATIONS Vegetable Soup. Clean the following vegetables : — Lettuces, turnips, carrots, thyme, parsley, celery, and marigolds. Cut the carrots and turnips round with a cutter for that purpose, and put them into separate basins of water ; the turnips must be fried a light brown, with a few onions cut square, in some good clarified butter ; when done, put them in a hair sieve. The carrots must be blanched by themselves, and added to the turnips when done ; the lettuce must be cut in large squares and put in a basin of water with the celery, which is to be cut round and blanched by themselves, and both put into the sieve with the other vegetables ; then put some common thyme, well-washed and picked fine, in the soup pot, enough to cover the bottom, and stew with a small bit of butter. The vegetables in the sieve may then be put in the soup pot with the thyme, and filled up with some good beef stock and one ladleful of plain mutton broth. The parsley must be cut fine and blanched by itself, as well as the marigolds, and not put in before the soup is clarified. When clarified, add a little sugar and salt. Hare Soup. Put half-a-pound of butter into a stewpan, and, when melted, add three-quarters of a pound of flour, and a half- pound of streaked bacon, cut into very small pieces ; 128 ENGLAND keep stirring over the fire until becoming lightly browned. You have previously cut up a hare into neat smallish pieces ; put them into the stewpan, and keep stirring round over the fire until they are set ; then fill it up with five quarts of second brown stock ; add two onions, a head of celery, a pinch of parsley, thyme, and bay- leaves, a blade of mace, and four cloves ; when boiling, season with one ounce of salt and a little pepper, and let it simmer at the corner until the pieces of hare are done, which would be in about an hour if a young hare, but double that time if a very old one ; the better plan is to try a piece occasionally. When done, take out the best pieces and lay to one side, and the meat of the in- ferior ones pound in a mortar, remove the bones, put it back in the soup, and pass all through a tammy, and put it again into a stewpan with a tablespoonful of red currant jelly and the best pieces of the hare, boil for ten minutes, and serve. Boiled Salmon and Cucumbers. Dress this fish in slices from an inch to two inches in thickness, boiling it in plenty of salt and water about twenty minutes ; the whole fish may be boiled, or the head and shoulders of a large one, but they require longer boiling. Salmon eats firmer by not being put into the water until boiling. Dress the fish upon a napkin, and serve with lobster sauce, shrimp ditto, or plain melted butter in a boat with fresh sprigs of parsley boiled a few minutes in it, and sliced cucumbers. 129 1 BANQUETS OF THE NATIONS Shrimp Sauce. Make exactly the same as lobster sauce, only substi- tuting boiled shrimps, passed through a sieve, and some whole shelled shrimps instead of lobsters. Fried Fillets of Sole. Skin and put two soles in a deep dish, season them with chopped sweet herbs, salt and pepper, cover with white wine, and leave to soak for half-an-hour. A few minutes before cooking, fillet the soles, dip the fillets in milk, dredge them well with flour, and fry them in lard. When nicely browned, put them in a folded napkin placed on a hot dish, and garnish with fried parsley and slices of lemon

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