Pike (Baked)

Ingredients

• Put into a saucepan a few herbs
• bread crumbs
• oysters
• the yolks of three or four eggs
• half a pint of cream
• mace
• pepper
• salt
• little dabs of butter

Method

1. 1

   Put into a saucepan a few herbs, bread crumbs, oysters, two or three anchovies, the yolks of three or four eggs, half a pint of cream, mace, pepper, and salt; stir till it thickens; then cut a hole in the fish, as near the throat as possible, put in the stuffing, and sew it up.

2. 2

   Put little dabs of butter all over the fish, and bake it in a moderate oven.

3. 3

   Serve with sauce of gravy, butter, and anchovy.

As published

This recipe was extracted from Recipes for the million (1891), page 172. The excerpt below is the record exactly as published.

PIKE (BAKED) . — Put into a saucepan a few herbs, bread crumbs, oysters, two or three anchovies, the yolks of three or four eggs, half a pint of cream, mace, pepper, and salt ; stir till it thickens ; then cut a hole in the fish, as near the throat as possible, put in the stuffing, and sew it up. Put little dabs of butter

Cook this with the app: pantry check, scaling, and the assistant.