Salmon en Matelote

Ingredients

• Wash and truss a small salmon
• boil it in salted water
• Put six tablespoonfuls of butter
• one and one-half breakfast cupfuls of butter sauce
• two eggs that have been beaten
• with a small quantity of lemon juice
• and pepper
• and salt

Method

1. 1

   After boiling the salmon, drain it and place on a hot dish.

2. 2

   Prepare the sauce by stirring butter into the butter sauce, then quickly stir in beaten eggs and seasonings.

3. 3

   Pour over the fish and garnish with fried sole fillets.

As published

This recipe was extracted from The Cook Book, by "Oscar" of the Waldorf (1896) by Oscar Tschirky, page 22. The excerpt below is the record exactly as published.

Salmon en Matelote. Wash and truss a small salmon in the shape of the letter S, and boil it in salted water. When cooked, drain it, put it on a hot dish, bend some legs of lobster at the joints, and stick the ends in the back of the salmon from head to tail. Have pre- pared the following sauce : Put six tablespoonfuls of butter in one and one-half breakfast cupfuls of butter sauce, stir it over the fire until it is hot, then stir in quickly two eggs that have been beaten with a small quantity of lemon juice, and pepper and salt

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