Irish Baked Potatoes
Peel and boil potatoes in salted water until tender; drain and mash with a lump of butter. Put in a well-buttered baking-dish a layer of the potatoes and a layer of fried bread-crumbs until dish is full. Moisten with beaten eggs, well seasoned with salt and pepper, and 3 tablespoonfuls of milk. Put in the oven to brown. Serve with boiled fish.
Champagne Batter
2 cups chicken pieces — see notes
1 1/3 cups all-purpose flour
1 teaspoon salt
1/4 teaspoon pepper
1 tablespoon vegetable oil
2 egg yolks — beaten
3/4 cup champagne
In a medium bowl, mix together the flour, salt, pepper, oil and egg yolks.
Stir well., Gradually add the champagne,, stirring constantly to keep smooth. Refrigerate batter for 3 to 12 hours. Use this batter to coat the chicken pieces, fish, shrimp, vegetables or fritters and deep fry as you would fritters.
Russian Boiled Fish
Clean and season a whole fish and let boil with 1 sliced onion, 1/2 cup of vinegar, a few slices of lemon and 2 sprigs of parsley. Add a tablespoonful of butter and let cook until tender. Remove the fish to a platter; mix the sauce with 1 tablespoonful of brown sugar, a pinch of ginger, cinnamon and nutmeg and the juice of a lemon. Let boil well; then thicken with the yolks of 2 beaten eggs and pour over the fish. Serve cold. Garnish with lemon-slices and olives.
East India Fish
Slice 1/2 pound of cooked salmon; then heat 1 ounce of butter in a stew-pan; add 2 small onions chopped fine, 1 ounce of coconut, 2 hard-boiled eggs chopped. Let cook a few minutes, then add 1 pint of milk; let boil up once. Add the fish, 1 teaspoonful of curry paste, 1 teaspoonful of paprika and salt to taste. Let cook a few minutes, then stir in 1 large tablespoonful of boiled rice. Serve very hot with toast.
Deviled Walleye Fillets
1 sm Onion, very finely diced
1 1/2 tb Dijon mustard
3 tb Lemon juice
1 ts Soy sauce
1/2 sm Green pepper, chopped Salt and pepper
1/2 c Bread crumbs
1 pn Cayenne or dash of
1/4 lb Butter (1 stick) Tabasco
1/2 c Grated provolone
2 lb Walleye fillets
Saute the onion and green pepper in the butter until soft, then add mustard, soy sauce, cayenne, and lemon juice. Stir in crumbs and cheese. Salt and pepper the fillets, lay them on foil broiler liner, and broil for 5 minutes about 4 inches from the flame. Turn the fish, cover evenly with the bread-vegetable-cheese mixture, and broil another 6-8 minutes. Serve.
Fish boiling
Boiling extracts flavor and, to some extent, nutriment from the food to which this cookery method is applied. Therefore, unless the fish to be cooked is one that has a very strong flavor and that will be improved by the loss of flavor, it should not be boiled. Much care should be exercised in boiling fish, because the meat is usually so tender that it is likely to boil to pieces or to fall apart.
When a fish is to be boiled, clean it and, if desired, remove the head. Pour sufficient boiling water to cover the fish well into the vessel in which it is to be cooked, and add salt in the proportion of 1 teaspoonful to each quart of water. Tie the fish in a strip of cheesecloth or gauze if necessary, and lower it into the vessel of slowly boiling water. Allow the fish to boil until it may be easily pierced with a fork; then take it out of the water and remove the cloth, provided one is used. Serve with a well-seasoned sauce, such as lemon cream, horseradish, etc.
Fish diet
FISH provides another class of high-protein or tissue-building food. As this term is generally understood, it includes both vertebrate fish that is, fish having a backbone such as salmon, cod, shad etc. and many other water animals such as lobsters, crabs, shrimp, oysters and clams.
Fish can usually be purchased at a lower price than many other food items and for this reason possesses an economic advantage over them. Some varieties of fish are sought more than others, the popularity of certain kinds depending on the individual taste or the preference of the people in a particular locality.
As is well known, fish is an extremely perishable food. Therefore, when it is caught in quantities too great to be used at one time, it is preserved in various ways. The preservation methods that have proved to be the most satisfactory are canning, salting and drying, smoking and preserving in various kinds of brine and pickle. As such methods are usually carried out in the locality where the fish is caught, many varieties of fish can be conveniently stored for long periods of time and so distributed as to meet the requirements of the consumer. This plan enables persons far removed from the Source of supply to procure fish frequently.