Pike with Sauerkraut

Ingredients

• 1 quart sauerkraut
• % cupful lard
• a well-cleaned 3-pound pike
• season with salt
• season with pepper
• dip the pieces into beaten egg
• roll in fine bread crumbs
• 1 tablespoonful butter
• 3 well-beaten eggs
• Y, pint of sour cream
• 3 tablespoonfuls bread crumbs

Method

1. 1

   Wash sauerkraut, place in a saucepan with lard, cover with boiling water, and boil until done.

2. 2

   Split the pike, remove skin and bones, cut meat into 2-inch pieces, season, dip in beaten egg, roll in bread crumbs, and fry in butter until light brown.

3. 3

   Drain sauerkraut, return to saucepan, add butter and white wine, cook for 10 minutes.

4. 4

   Butter a pudding dish, layer sauerkraut and fish alternately, ending with sauerkraut.

5. 5

   Mix eggs with sour cream, pour over, sprinkle with bread crumbs and melted butter.

6. 6

   Bake until light brown and serve with boiled potatoes.

Nutrition per serving

Estimated from matched ingredients across 6 servings.

As published

This recipe was extracted from European and American cuisine (1914) by Lemcke, Mrs. Gesine Knubel, page 146. The excerpt below is the record exactly as published.

Pike with Sauerkraut. — Wash 1 quart sauerkraut in cold water, place it in a saucepan over the fire, add % cupful lard, cover -with boiling water, and boil till done. In the meantime split a well^ cleaned 3-pound pike through the back, remove the skin and bones, cut the meat into 2-inch pieces; season with salt and pepper; dip the pieces into beaten egg, roll in fine bread crumbs, and fry light brown in butter. When the sauerkraut is done, pour it into a sieve, drain off the water ; return the kraut to saucepan, add 1 tablespoonful butter and Vs cupful white wine ; set the saucepan over the fire and cook 10 minutes. Butter a pudding dish, put in a layer of sauerkraut, then a layer of fish ; continue in alternate layers till all is used ; let the last layer be kraut. Mix 3 well-beaten eggs with Y, pint of sour cream, pour over the kraut ; sprinkle over 3 tablespoonfuls bread crumbs

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