Fried Pike

Ingredients

• small pike
• a lump of butter
• two or three anchovies
• a slice of ginger
• a little grated nutmeg
• a sufficient quantity of claret
• the juice of an orange

Method

1. 1

   Select small pike, draw and wash them.

2. 2

   Fry in butter until browned and crisp.

3. 3

   Drain butter, add anchovies, ginger, nutmeg, and claret.

4. 4

   Boil until tender, reducing the liquor by half, then add orange juice and a small lump of butter.

5. 5

   Serve with sauce over the fish and garnish with orange slices.

As published

This recipe was extracted from The Cook Book, by "Oscar" of the Waldorf (1896) by Oscar Tschirky, page 18. The excerpt below is the record exactly as published.

Fried Pike. Select small pike, draw and wash them; put a lump of butter in a stewpan and when blue smoke arises put in the fish, seeing that they are perfectly dry, and fry till 68 FISH. nicely brovned and crisp. Aftenrard drain the butter off them and put in vith them two or three anchovies, a slice of ginger, a little grated nutm^. salt to taste, and a sufficient quantity of claret to cover them. Boil the fish until tender, vhen the liquor should be reduced to half its original quantity; then add the juice of an orange

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