Salmon Marbles and Lemon Sauce

Ingredients

• 1 tin salmon
• Butter
• Cayenne
• Juice three lemons
• 4 eggs
• Half a cupful breadcrumbs
• 1 onion
• 1 teaspoonful chopped parsley

Method

1. 1

   Turn out the salmon, pick out all the bones and pieces of skin, pound up with the breadcrumbs, a little cayenne and the chopped parsley, mix with one egg and form into small balls not larger than a marble or pigeon's egg.

2. 2

   Cut the onion into very small pieces, and put in a saucepan with a little butter, allow it to cook, then add the liquor from the tin of salmon with about half-a-pint of water, season rather highly with pepper and salt.

3. 3

   When boiling drop in the salmon marbles and boil for ten minutes; take them out very carefully and put on a dish in the oven; then beat up the other three eggs and add the juice of three lemons; beat well, and add them to the gravy; give them a boil, stirring all the time; pour it over the marbles and serve very hot.

As published

This recipe was extracted from Mrs. Maclurcan's cookery book (1899) by H. Maclurcan, page 17. The excerpt below is the record exactly as published.

SALMON MAEBLES AND LEMON SAUCE. Mode. — Turn out the salmon, pick out all the bones and pieces of skin, pound up with the breadcrumbs, a little cayenne and the chopped parsley, mix with one egg and form into small balls not larger than a marble or pigeon's egg. Cut the onion into very small pieces, and put in a saucepan with a little butter, allow it to cook, then add the liquor from the tin of salmon with about half-a-pint of water, season rather highly with pepper and salt. When boiling drop in the salmon marbles and boil for ten minutes ; take them out very carefully and put on a dish in the oven ; then beat up the other three eggs and add the juice of three lemons ; beat well, and add them to the gravy ; give them a boil, stirring all the time ; pour it over the marbles and serve very hot. 1 tin salmon Butter Cayenne Juice three lemons 4 eggs Half a cupful breadcrumbs 1 onion 1 teaspoonful chopped parsley

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