Sole, Fillets of Baked, with Sweet Herbs

Ingredients

• a large sole
• two ounces of finely-powdered bread-crumbs
• a little pepper
• a little salt
• a pinch of grated nutmeg
• the grated peel of half a lemon
• a tea-spoonful of mixed sweet herbs
• two ounces of butter

Method

1. 1

   Fillet a large sole, rub with lemon, and cool for an hour.

2. 2

   Prepare savory crumbs by mixing breadcrumbs with pepper, salt, nutmeg, lemon peel, and sweet herbs.

3. 3

   Dip fillets in clarified butter, then crumbs, then beaten egg, and crumbs again.

4. 4

   Butter a baking dish, place soles, add butter pieces, and bake in a brisk oven.

As published

This recipe was extracted from Cassell's dictionary of cookery (1892) by Cassell & Company, page 1840. The excerpt below is the record exactly as published.

Sole, Fillets of. Baked, with Sweet Herbs. — Fillet a large sole, and divide the fillets into halves. Rub these with a freshly- cut lemon, and leave them in a cool place for an hour or two. Prepare some savoiuy crumbs as follows: — Mix two ounces of finely-powdered bread-crumbs with a little pepper and salt, a pinch of grated nutmeg, the grated peel of half a lemon, and a tea-spoonful of mixed sweet herbs. Dip the fillets first into clarified butter, then into the crumbs, and when the butter is set dip them in beaten egg and into the crumbs a second time. Butter a baking-dish thicklj-, place the soles in it, lay two ounces of butter here and there upon them in little pieces, and bake the fish in a brisk oven. Send shrimp, anchovy, or caper sauce to table in a tureen. If the flavour is liked, the dish in which the soles are baked can be rubbed quickly with garlic before the soles are put into it. Time to bake the fillets, about twenty minutes. Probable cost of one large sole. Is. 6d. Suf- ficient for four persons. Sole, Fillets of (Turkish fashion). —Take off and saute the fiUets as directed before. Have sorne rice swelled and made soft in good consomme ; mix it with a few spoonfuls of good bechamel, to put in the centre of the dish : this rice must be thick, in order that it may be dished in a pyramid. To mask or cover the soles, take three spoonfuls of bechamel mixed ■with a quarter of a pound of butter, a tea- spoonful of cavice, and a little salt

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