Stewed Fish

Ingredients

• your fish
• in lard
• slice an onion
• cover the fish with stock
• season with pepper
• salt
• one blade of mace
• a clove or two
• a few balls of butter
• two tablespoonfuls of ketchup

Method

1. 1

   Fillet and fry fish in lard.

2. 2

   Fry onion.

3. 3

   Put fish and onion in a tin dish, cover with stock, season, and thicken with butter.

4. 4

   Leave in the oven for an hour or two.

Nutrition per serving

As published

This recipe was extracted from Hilda's "where is it?" of recipes (1891) by Hildagonda J. Duckitt, page 24. The excerpt below is the record exactly as published.

salt, put all through a mincing machine. Mix with the egg, the crumb to be soaked in milk and squeezed quite dry; roll into balls, dip in the bread- crumbs and egg. Fry in boiling lard or dripping. FISH (PICKLED, OR ''ENGELEGTE"). (Cape way of preserving fish.) Ingredients, > good-sized Soles, ai any nice Cape i oz. Mango Relish. Fish (Rlleted). 6 Large Chillies, or I3 SmalL 6 Large Onions. i quart Vinegar, a oz. Curry Powder. Salt to taste. Fry the fish a nice brown in lard, or butter, or olive oil ; drain, and cool. Slice four onions, and fry a nice brown in a little oil j add one ounce curry powder, two chillies cut fine, a dessertspoonful of salt, and the mango relish. When stirred to a paste, add a little vinegar to moisten well ; then lay the fish in a jar ; spread over each layer some of this mixture. Cut the rest of the onion in rings ; boil in the vinegar very gently, until quite tender, with the other ounce of curry powder and a little salt; then pour over the fish. Let it stand till cool, then cork well. It will be fit for use in two or three days, and will keep for months. Is a delicious breakfast or lunch dish. \See Note at end of F.] FISH {FRIED). Cut your fish in nice little shapes; let them get slightly dry; dust with flour. Then roll in egg and bread- crumbs, with pepper and salt. Fry in lard. (In frying fish, do not add cold lard while your fish is in the frying- pan, as it should always be done in boiling fat or lard.) FISH MOULD. (Mrs. Fleming's Book.) Shred about half a pound, or more, of boiled fish ; add half a cup of bread-crumbs, two eggs, essence of anchovy, 70 FISH (PICKLED— STEWED— OR IN AN OVEN). [F two ounces of butter, pepper, salt, cayenne. Mix all well together, put into a buttered mould, and steam for an hour. Serve with butter sauce. FISH {PICKLED). Fry your fish in the above way, only don't use any flour or bread-crumbs, and brown the fish in thin oil (Cape sheep-tail fat is excellent). Take two or three ounces of good curry powder, two ounces soft sugar, two ounces salt, half-ounce pounded ginger, two or three fresh red chillies, two dozen coriander seeds, two quarts of vinegar, about four or five onions (cut in rings and fried a nice brown). Boil all these ingredients. Lay your fish in layers in a jar, pour over each layer some of the mixture. Take care to have it well corked, and it will keep for months. FISH {STEWED). (Mrs. Fleming's Book.) Fillet your fish, and fry in lard (bread-crumb and cg^) ; slice an onion, and fry that also. Then put the fish and onion in a tin dish, cover the fish with stock ; season with pepper, salt, one blade of mace, a clove or two, a few balls of butter (rolled in flour) to thicken the gravy, two tablespoonfuls of ketchup

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