Salmon Froid a la Norvegienne

Ingredients

• Skin and decorate the salmon
• glaze it with aspic jelly
• Let a coating of jelly set upon the bottom of the dish
• place a cushion of carved rice
• place on a row of fine prawns
• garnish of small cucumber slices
• puree of smoked salmon
• hard-boiled eggs glazed with aspic
• small tomatoes or halved ones peeled
• small barquettes of cooked and pickled beetroot
• garnished with shrimps' tails

Method

1. 1

   Skin and decorate the salmon or darne and glaze it with aspic jelly.

2. 2

   Let a coating of jelly set upon the bottom of the dish.

3. 3

   Upon this jelly place a cushion of carved rice the same shape as the fish.

4. 4

   Set the fish decorated and glazed upon this cushion, then place on a row of fine prawns cleared of their abdominal shell.

5. 5

   Surround with a garnish of small cucumber slices garnished dome-fashion with a puree of smoked salmon; hard-boiled eggs glazed with aspic, small tomatoes or halved ones peeled, stuck with a bit of parsley stalk, and small barquettes of cooked and pickled beetroot, garnished with shrimps' tails cohered with mayonnaise.

6. 6

   Serve mayonnaise sauce separately.

Nutrition per serving

As published

This recipe was extracted from Soyer's standard cookery (1912) by Nicolas Soyer, page 61. The excerpt below is the record exactly as published.

Salmon Froid a la Norvegienne. Skin and decorate the salmon or darne and glaze it with aspic jelly. STANDARD COOKERY. 85 Let a coating of jelly set upon the bottom of the dish. Upon this jelly place a cushion of carved rice the same shape as the fish. Set the fish decorated and glazed upon this cush- ion, then place on a row of fine prawns cleared of their ab- dominal shell. Surround with a garnish of small cucumber slices garnished dome-fashion with a puree of smoked salmon; hard-boiled eggs glazed with aspic, small tomatoes or halved ones peeled, stuck with a bit of parsley stalk, and small barquettes of cooked and pickled beetroot, garnished with shrimps' tails

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