Gratin Fish

Ingredients

• a table-spoonful of soft butter
• a pint of chicken stock
• one table-spoonful of flour
• three of butter
• a slice of onion
• a bay leaf
• a table-spoonful of lemon juice
• a teacupful of fine dried breadcrumbs
• salt and pepper to suit your taste

Method

1. 1

   Skin the fish, cut into pieces, and place in a buttered gratin dish.

2. 2

   Sprinkle with salt and pepper.

3. 3

   Prepare the sauce by mixing flour and butter, adding onion, bay leaf, chicken stock, and seasoning.

4. 4

   Simmer for 20 minutes, then add lemon juice.

5. 5

   Strain the sauce over the fish, top with seasoned breadcrumbs, and bake in a hot oven for 20 minutes.

6. 6

   Serve immediately.

As published

This recipe was extracted from Miss Parloa's kitchen companion (1887) by Maria Parloa, page 97. The excerpt below is the record exactly as published.

a table-spoonful of soft butter over a gratin dish, and lay these pieces or fillets in the dish. Sprinkle with salt and pepper, and keep in a cool place until the time for cooking. Make a pint of sauce in the following manner: Mix one table-spoonful of flour and three of butter, and add to the mixture a slice of onion, a bay leaf, a pint of chicken stock, and salt and pepper to suit your taste. Simmer gently for twenty minutes ; then add a table- spoonful of lemon juice. Strain the sauce, and pour it over the fish. Have ready a teacupful of fine dried breadcrumbs

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