Salmon Pie

Ingredients

• a prime piece of fresh salmon
• a lobster
• half a pound of fresh butter
• pepper
• salt
• two blades of mace, bruised

Method

1. 1

   Prepare a good crust and clean the salmon.

2. 2

   Butter the bottom of the dish, lay in the salmon, season with pepper, salt, nutmeg, and add bruised mace.

3. 3

   Boil the lobster, mix the flesh with melted butter, and pour over the salmon.

4. 4

   Cover and bake for one hour in a moderate oven.

As published

This recipe was extracted from Virginia Cookery-book (1884) by Mary Stuart Smith, page 36. The excerpt below is the record exactly as published.

pepper and salt; add a spoonful of capers chopped; grate in some nutmeg, and put in a whole small onion; add a little water and half a spoonful of vinegar; keep this sim- mering over a gentle fire while the salmon is broiling; and when that is nearly ready prepare a warm dish and pour 68 VIRGINIA COOKERY-BOOK. in the sauce; take away the onion and lay in the salmon, sending it to table hot. This is the best way of eating fresh salmon. Salmon F*ie. Lobster is an ingredient of great consequence in a sal- mon pie, and the whole is in some measure of the nature of the last mentioned, but it is much richer. Make it thus : First prepare a very good crust ; then choose a prime piece of fresh salmon, clean it perfectly, and wash it last with a sponge wet with white wine ; put some crust round the dish, but none at the bottom; only butter the bottom of the dish, and then lay in the salmon. After seasoning it very well with pepper and salt grate a little nutmeg over it, and add two blades of mace, bruised. Boil a lobster, take out all the flesh, mix that and the inside of the body together ; melt half a pound of fresh butter

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