Salmon Steaks with Cucumber

Ingredients

• 2 or 3 salmon steaks about 1 inch thick
• pint good brown stock
• dessert spoonful of tarragon vinegar
• Salt
• pepper
• cayenne
• lemon juice
• 1 oz. butter
• 2 or 3 inches cucumber
• A little minced tarragon
• or chervil or parsley

Method

1. 1

   Wipe the steak dry, sprinkle with pepper, salt, and lemon juice, lay in a buttered tin, pour round the stock, cover with buttered paper, bake for 20 minutes.

2. 2

   When done, remove into a hot dish; strain the gravy into a pan, add the vinegar, and gradually stir in 1 oz. butter; add seasoning, chopped tarragon, and chervil or parsley, pour over and round the steaks.

3. 3

   Cut the cucumber in small shreds, season with vinegar, salt, and pepper, and put a pile on each steak, and serve.

As published

This recipe was extracted from Choice cookery (1888) by H. M. Young, page 5. The excerpt below is the record exactly as published.

SALMON STEAKS WITH CUCUMBER. 2 or 3 salmon steaks about 1 inch, thick pint good brown stock dessert spoonful of tarragon vinegar Salt, pepper, cayenne, and lemon juice 1 oz. butter 2 or 3 inches cucumber A little minced tarragon and chervil or parsley

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