Scalloped Fish

Ingredients

• Some cooked fish
• 1 oz. flour
• 1 oz. butter
• ½ pint milk
• breadcrumbs
• grated cheese
• seasoning
• butter

Method

1. 1

   Flake the fish, being careful to remove all bones.

2. 2

   Make a sauce and mix with the fish.

3. 3

   Put alternate layers of this mixture with cheese in a greased pie-dish.

4. 4

   Fry some crumbs in a little butter and lay on the top.

5. 5

   Warm through in the oven.

As published

This recipe was extracted from Berridge House recipe book (1910), page 23. The excerpt below is the record exactly as published.

| oz. butter, lemon juice, salt and pepper. Method. — Skin the sole. Cut off the fins, and nick it with a knife on both sides. Dry it well. Chop the parsley, shallot and mushrooms and mix together. Butter a dish. Sprinkle half the chopped mixture on the dish. Lay the sole on 70 COOKERY RECIPES this seasoning and sprinkle the rest of the parsley, &c., over the fish. Squeeze over a little lemon juice, season with salt and pepper. Shake over some browned breadcrumbs. Lay the butter in little bits here and there on the fish. Cover with a greased paper. Put into a moderate oven and bake about ten minutes. Pour the heated sauce round the fish. LESSON VII Fish Fried in Batter Filleted whiting or salt, plaice. i gill tepid water, | lb. flour, white of i egg. i tablespoonful of salad oil, Method. — Wash and dry the fillets. Make the batter, allowing it to stand before adding the white of egg if possible. Dip in the fillets. Fry in hot fat a golden brown. Garnish with fried parsley. Fish Pastry 6 oz. good flaky or rough puff pastry, 6 oz. cooked fish, sauce flavoured with anchovy (f gill), i chopped gherkin, seasoning, i teaspoonful chopped capers, i chopped hard-boiled egg- Method. — Roll the pastry to an oblong length. Mix the fish with the sauce and flavouring, and place on the pastry. Brush the edges with egg. Fold over. Brush with egg and decorate with leaves. Bake in a hot oven. Serve on a fancy paper. A few oysters or shrimps would improve the mixture. SECOND COURSE 7 1 Scalloped Fish Some cooked fish, i oz. flour, i oz. butter, | pint milk, breadcrumbs, grated cheese, seasoning

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