BOILED SALT MACKEREL—I
Soak the fish in cold water over night and in the morning rinse thoroughly. Wrap in a cloth and put to boil in cold water. Bring slowly to the boiling point and cook for thirty minutes. Unwrap carefully, take out the backbones, and pour over a little melted butter and cream, seasoning with pepper. Or, serve with a sauce made of a cupful of milk thickened with a teaspoonful of cornstarch, and season with butter, pepper, salt, and minced parsley. Take from the fire, add one egg well beaten, and pour over the fish. Garnish with lemon and parsley.
BOILED SALT MACKEREL—II
Soak over night in cold water and in the morning rinse thoroughly. Boil, drain, and pour over a cupful of hot cream in which a tablespoonful of butter has been melted.
BOILED SALT MACKEREL—III
Wash thoroughly, cover with cold water to which a chopped onion and a little black pepper have been added, and boil until the flesh loosens from the bone. Drain, and serve with melted butter and minced parsley.
BOILED SALT MACKEREL—IV
Soak the fish over night in cold water, and in the morning cover with hot water for half an hour. Drain and boil in acidulated water or in milk until done. Serve with a Cream Sauce to which chopped hard-boiled eggs have been added, or with Tomato Sauce.
BOILED SALT MACKEREL—V
Soak the fish over night in cold water, drain, and simmer for fifteen minutes in water to cover, adding a teaspoonful of vinegar, a bay-leaf, a slice of onion, and a sprig of parsley. When tender, place on a hot platter and pour over it a Cream Sauce.
BOILED SALT MACKEREL—VI
Prepare the fish according to directions given in the preceding recipe, and simmer for twenty minutes in acidulated water. Drain and pour over it a Cream Sauce.
BOILED SALT MACKEREL—VII
Prepare according to directions given in the preceding recipe. Pour over a sauce made of stewed and strained tomatoes, thickened with butter and browned flour, and seasoned with pepper, salt, sugar, and grated onion.
BAKED MACKEREL—I
Clean the mackerel, split down the back and cut each fish in four pieces. Put in a baking-dish in layers, seasoning each layer with bay-leaves, cloves, pepper-corns, and sliced onions or shallots. Cover with one cupful of stock, three tablespoonfuls each of white wine and vinegar, one tablespoonful each of anchovy sauce and mushroom catsup, and a teaspoonful of Worcestershire. Bake in a moderate oven. Take out the fish carefully, strain the sauce over them, and let cool.
BAKED MACKEREL—II
Split a fresh mackerel, take out the backbone, dry thoroughly, and sprinkle the inside with salt and pepper. Drain the liquor from a quart of oysters and put aside a dozen of the large ones. Chop the remaining oysters coarsely. Fry two chopped onions in butter, add the chopped oysters with three chopped hard-boiled eggs and a tablespoonful of minced parsley. Season with salt and pepper and cool. Mix with the yolks of two raw eggs and a tablespoonful of butter. Stuff the fish and sew up. Put into a baking-pan, cover with buttered paper, and bake for twenty minutes, basting as required. Add the oysters and bake for five minutes longer. Serve the fish on a warm platter with lemon-juice squeezed over it, and place the oysters around it on thin circles of toast spread with anchovy paste. Garnish with parsley and lemon and serve very hot.
BAKED MACKEREL—III
Gash two cleaned fresh mackerel, and put in a buttered baking-dish with two tablespoonfuls of white wine, three tablespoonfuls of mushroom liquor, a chopped shallot, and salt and pepper to season. Cover with buttered paper and bake for fifteen minutes in a moderate oven. Take up the fish and add to the gravy a little chopped onion, mushrooms, shallot, parsley, and garlic fried together, and enough white stock to make the required quantity of sauce. Thicken with butter and flour cooked together, take from the fire and add the yolks of three eggs well beaten. Add the juice of half a lemon and a tablespoonful of butter, and pour over the fish.
BAKED MACKEREL—IV
Soak a fresh cleaned fish for half an hour in olive-oil and lemon-juice. Lay in a baking-pan upon thin slices of fat salt pork, sprinkle with salt and pepper, and bake for twenty-five minutes. Serve with Tomato Sauce.
BAKED FILLET OF MACKEREL
Remove the head and backbone from a large fresh mackerel, and place the roe on top. Chop fine six shallots or three small onions, half a pound of mushrooms, and three or four sprigs of parsley. Add a teaspoonful of salt, and a pinch of pepper. Put half of this mixture in a buttered baking-pan, lay the fish upon it, and pour over six tablespoonfuls of white wine. Spread the remaining seasoning on top, sprinkle with crumbs, dot with butter, cover with buttered paper, and bake for thirty minutes. Pour over a little melted butter, garnish with lemon and parsley, and serve in the dish in which it is baked.
BAKED FILLETS OF MACKEREL
Butter an oval baking-dish and spread chopped oysters on the bottom. Arrange upon it the fillets of four fresh mackerel, skinned and seasoned with salt and pepper. Sprinkle with chopped onion, parsley, and mushrooms, cover with one cupful of beef stock thickened with browned flour, sprinkle with crumbs, dot with butter and bake for half an hour. Sprinkle with lemon-juice and serve in the same dish.
BAKED FILLETS OF MACKEREL
Clean and fillet the fish. Put in a buttered baking-dish, season with salt, pepper, and minced parsley, squeeze lemon juice over, pour on a little melted butter, cover with buttered paper, and bake. Drain, and serve with Maître d'Hôtel Sauce.
BAKED FILLETS OF MACKEREL WITH CREAM
Cook the prepared fillets in melted butter and drain. Thicken two cupfuls of white stock with butter and flour cooked together, add a wineglassful of white wine, take from the fire, and add the yolks of two eggs well beaten. Cover the fillets with the sauce, sprinkle with crumbs and grated cheese, dot with butter, and bake brown. Sprinkle with lemon-juice and serve in the same dish.
MACKEREL BAKED IN CREAM
Skin and bone a large fish. Cut it into four pieces, season it and fry in butter. Drain it and keep warm. Mix a cupful of white stock with two tablespoonfuls of Sherry and the yolk of an egg. Cook until it thickens, and pour over the fish, seasoning with minced parsley and onion. Sprinkle with crumbs and bake until brown.
BAKED FRESH MACKEREL WITH FINE HERBS
Split and clean the fish, remove the head and tail, put into a buttered dripping-pan, sprinkle with salt and pepper, dot with butter, and pour over two-thirds of a cupful of milk. Bake for twenty-five minutes in a hot oven.
BAKED SPANISH MACKEREL WITH FINE HERBS
Butter a baking-dish, sprinkle with chopped shallots, parsley and mushrooms, lay a cleaned mackerel upon it, sprinkle with more chopped shallots, parsley and mushrooms, season with salt, pepper, grated nutmeg, and dots of butter. Add two wineglassfuls of white wine and a cupful of white stock. Cover with a buttered paper and boil, basting frequently. Thicken the sauce with a tablespoonful of flour cooked in butter, pour over the fish, sprinkle with crumbs, dot with butter, and bake brown. Squeeze lemon-juice over the top and serve in the same dish.
BAKED MACKEREL WITH OYSTER STUFFING
Make a stuffing of a dozen chopped oysters, a cupful of bread crumbs, the chopped yolks of two hard-boiled eggs, a tablespoonful of butter, and onion-juice, minced parsley, salt, and pepper to season. Bind with the yolk of a raw egg and fill a cleaned fresh mackerel with the stuffing. Put the fish on a buttered baking-dish, dredge with flour and pour around it a cupful each of boiling water and stock. Bake until done, basting often with melted butter and the drippings. When done slide on to a hot platter and add to the remaining liquid sufficient warm water to make the required quantity of sauce. Thicken with browned flour, seasoned with tomato catsup and Worcestershire, pour over the fish, and serve.
BAKED SALT MACKEREL
Soak over night in cold water. In the morning drain, cover with boiling water, and let stand for five minutes. Drain and put into a baking-pan. Rub with butter, season with pepper, and pour over half a cupful of cream or milk. Bake until brown.
BAKED SALT MACKEREL WITH CREAM SAUCE
Soak a salt mackerel over night. In the morning drain, rinse, and put into a baking-pan with a pint of milk. Bake for twenty minutes, take up the fish, and thicken the milk with a tablespoonful each of butter and flour cooked together. Season with salt and pepper, pour over the fish, and serve.
FRIED MACKEREL
Fry three slices of salt pork, and add to the fat a teaspoonful of Worcestershire Sauce. Fry in this fresh mackerel, dredged with flour. Season with melted butter. The mackerel may be dipped in beaten egg before it is dipped in flour.
FRIED SALT MACKEREL
Soak all day in cold water, changing the water every two hours. In the morning drain, wipe dry, roll in flour and fry in melted butter. Serve with melted butter and parsley.
MACKEREL À LA HAVRAISE
Clean the fish, take out the backbone and put into a baking-pan. To each mackerel add four tablespoonfuls of butter, two tablespoonfuls of chopped shallots, and salt, pepper, and grated nutmeg to season. Add two cupfuls of white wine, cover and cook slowly for thirty minutes. Take up the fish, thicken the sauce with a tablespoonful each of butter and flour cooked together, and boil, for five minutes. Take from the fire, add the yolks of three eggs beaten with a cupful of cream, season with lemon-juice and minced parsley, pour over the fish, and serve.
SPANISH MACKEREL À LA CASTILLANE
Open a Spanish mackerel, take out most of the backbone, season with salt and pepper, and stuff with seasoned crumbs. Put into a buttered baking-dish with two sliced onions, a bunch of parsley, half a cupful of Sherry, and two cupfuls of white stock. Cover with a buttered paper and cook for half an hour in the oven, basting as needed. Take up the fish, strain the sauce and thicken with butter and flour cooked together. Season with lemon-juice and anchovy paste, add a tablespoonful of butter, pour over the fish, and serve.
SPANISH MACKEREL À L'ESPAGNOLE
Put a cleaned Spanish mackerel in a buttered pan with one cupful each of wine and white stock. Season with salt, pepper, and grated nutmeg, add a bunch of parsley, and a clove of garlic, cover with buttered paper, and simmer for forty minutes. Take up the fish, thicken the sauce with browned flour, season with lemon-juice and melted butter, pour over the fish, and serve.
SPANISH MACKEREL À LA NASSAU
Clean and gash a large mackerel. Put in a buttered dish with salt, pepper, half a dozen peeled and sliced tomatoes, two wineglassfuls of white wine and half a cupful of water. Add two sliced and parboiled onions, a tablespoonful of minced parsley, and half a cupful of mushrooms. Add two tablespoonfuls of butter, cover with buttered paper, and bake for half an hour, basting as needed. Take out the fish and add enough stock to make the required quantity of sauce. Thicken with a tablespoonful each of butter and flour cooked together, pour over the fish, cover with crumbs, dot with butter, and bake brown. Squeeze lemon-juice over and serve.
SPANISH MACKEREL À LA VÉNITIENNE
Put the cleaned mackerel into a baking-pan with salt, pepper, grated onion, grated nutmeg, minced parsley, a tablespoonful of butter and half a cupful each of white wine and white stock. Cover with a buttered paper and cook for forty minutes, basting as needed. Take out the fish and add two cupfuls of white stock to the sauce. Bring to the boil, take from the fire, thicken with the yolks of four eggs and add two tablespoonfuls of butter, two tablespoonfuls of minced parsley, and the juice of a lemon. Pour over the fish and serve.
MACKEREL À LA TYROL
Wash and dry two fresh fish, and put into a saucepan with salt, pepper, grated nutmeg, chopped parsley and onion, and two tablespoonfuls of cider. Cover and cook for half an hour, then add one cupful of white stock thickened with flour and butter, the yolk of an egg, and a tablespoonful of tarragon vinegar. Strain the sauce over the fish, cover with crumbs, dot with butter, and brown in the oven. Serve in the same dish.
FILLETS OF MACKEREL À LA HORLY
Clean and fillet the fish, remove the skin and bones and soak for an hour in oil and lemon-juice, seasoned with chopped onion, parsley, salt, pepper, and sweet herbs. Drain, dredge with flour, dip in beaten eggs, roll in crumbs, fry in deep fat, and serve with Tomato Sauce.
FILLETS OF MACKEREL À L'INDIENNE
Fillet two large fresh mackerel, cut in two and remove the skin. Simmer for fifteen minutes with two tablespoonfuls each of melted butter and curry powder mixed with two wineglassfuls of white wine. Season with salt and pepper. Prepare a Cream Sauce and add to it two tablespoonfuls of butter and the juice of a lemon. Pour over the fish and serve with a border of plain boiled rice.
MACKEREL À LA BRETONNE
Wash and split a large mackerel, wipe dry, dredge with flour, and fry brown in butter. Sprinkle with salt, pepper, and lemon-juice.
SALT MACKEREL À LA BRETONNE
Soak the fish for twelve hours and prepare according to directions given above. Serve with melted butter.
SCOTCH MACKEREL PIE
Make a forcemeat of the roe and some parsley, onion, butter, bread crumbs, thyme, sweet marjoram, and the yolk of an egg. Cut the fish into strips, spread with the filling, and roll. Arrange in a deep dish, pour in half a cupful of stock, and cover with a layer of mashed potatoes. Bake for three quarters of an hour and serve.
TOASTED SALT MACKEREL
Soak over night in cold water, and hang up for a day or two until perfectly dry. Put in a dry tin and set into the oven for ten minutes.
MACKEREL EN PAPILLOTES
Oil a sheet of paper a little larger than the fish. Lay a slice of cooked ham on each piece of paper, and spread with chopped onion, carrot, parsley, and green pepper fried together in butter. Lay a mackerel on the ham, spread with the fried vegetables, cover with another slice of ham, and fold the paper over, twisting the ends. Bake for fifteen minutes in a moderate oven. Serve in the paper.
POTTED MACKEREL
Pound together an ounce of black pepper and six blades of mace. Mix with two ounces of salt and half an ounce of grated nutmeg. Rub thoroughly into pieces of fresh mackerel, and fry in oil. Drain, and put the fish in a stone jar. Fill with vinegar, and put two tablespoonfuls of oil on top. Cover closely and let stand for two days before using.
FILLETS OF MACKEREL WITH RAVIGOTE SAUCE
Cook the fillets of four fish in a buttered dish with salt, pepper, grated nutmeg, and half a cupful of white wine. For the sauce chop fine four shallots and put into a saucepan with two tablespoonfuls of butter and four tablespoonfuls of tarragon vinegar. Reduce half by boiling and add a pint of white stock thickened with a tablespoonful each of butter and flour cooked together. Add two tablespoonfuls of butter, pour over the fish, and serve.
MACKEREL WITH WHITE WINE SAUCE
Cook three fresh mackerel in a cupful of white wine, with butter, salt, pepper, grated nutmeg, minced onion, and parsley to season. Take out the fish, and add two cupfuls of white stock to the gravy. Thicken with two tablespoonfuls each of butter and flour cooked together, take from the fire, and add the yolks of three eggs well beaten. Pour the sauce over the fish, sprinkle with crumbs, dot with butter, and bake brown. Sprinkle with lemon-juice and serve in a baking-dish.
SPANISH MACKEREL SALAD
Drain the oil from a can of pickled Spanish mackerel, and cut the fish in slices. Boil a bunch of red beets for half an hour in water to cover, then drain and bake for half an hour in a hot oven. Peel, slice thin, and cool thoroughly. Mix with the mackerel, add a small bunch of radishes sliced thin, and half a dozen sliced pickles. Surround with lettuce leaves and pour over a French dressing.
STUFFED MACKEREL WITH ANCHOVY SAUCE
Stuff the prepared fish with seasoned crumbs mixed with chopped shallots, parsley, and mushrooms. Sew up and bake, basting with oil. Serve with Cream Sauce, seasoned with anchovy essence.
GERMAN PICKLED MACKEREL
Skin, bone, and cut into pieces four pounds of fresh mackerel, and put it in layers into a stone jar, sprinkling each layer with pepper, salt, bay-leaves, and sweet herbs. Cover with vinegar, seal firmly, and bake for six hours in a moderate oven.
FIVE WAYS TO COOK MULLET
BROILED MULLET
Soak the cleaned fish for an hour in salted and acidulated water. Drain, wipe dry, split, rub with seasoned butter, and broil.
BROILED MULLETS WITH MELTED BUTTER
Rub prepared mullets with seasoned flour and broil, basting with olive-oil as required. Serve with melted butter and minced parsley.
MULLET À LA MAÎTRE D'HÔTEL
Clean four mullets and soak in olive-oil to cover for thirty minutes, with a bunch of parsley, a sliced onion, and salt and pepper to season. Drain, broil, and serve with Maître d'Hôtel Sauce.
BAKED MULLET
Clean the fish and soak for an hour in salted and acidulated water. Drain, wipe dry, stuff with seasoned crumbs, sew up, rub with butter and put into a baking-pan, adding enough hot water to keep from burning. Baste as required and serve with any preferred sauce.
FRIED MULLET
Cut the cleaned fish in convenient pieces for serving and sauté in pork fat, or dip in egg and seasoned crumbs and fry in deep fat.
FIFTEEN WAYS TO COOK PERCH
FRIED PERCH—I
Clean the fish, dip in flour, then in beaten egg, then in crumbs, and fry in plenty of fat. Drain and garnish with lemon and parsley.
FRIED PERCH—II
Dip the cleaned perch in flour and fry brown in salt pork fat.
FRIED PERCH—III
Prepare and clean the fish, season with salt and pepper, dip in egg and corn-meal, and fry in deep fat.
BROILED PERCH
Rub the prepared fish with butter, season with salt and pepper, and broil. Garnish with fried parsley and lemon.
BOILED PERCH
Boil the cleaned fish with parsley, a tablespoonful of butter, and salt and pepper to season. Drain, strain the liquid, thicken with butter and flour, season to taste, pour over the fish, and serve.
BOILED PERCH WITH OYSTER SAUCE
Prepare and clean the fish and simmer until done in salted and acidulated water. Drain and serve with Oyster Sauce.
PERCH À L'ALLEMANDE
Put two large cleaned perch into a saucepan with two chopped carrots, a sprig of parsley, a celery root, a sliced onion and a pinch of salt. Cover with white wine and simmer for twenty minutes. Drain and keep warm. Take out the onion, parsley and celery root, add half a cupful of chopped mushrooms, and cook for five minutes. Cook with a tablespoonful each of butter and flour thickened together, take from the fire, add a tablespoonful of butter and the juice of two lemons. Pour over the fish and serve.
STEWED PERCH À LA BATELIÈRE
Put four pounds of cleaned perch into a saucepan with salt and pepper to season, two sliced onions, a bunch of parsley, and Claret and water in equal parts to cover. Simmer for half an hour, drain, remove the parsley and thicken the sauce with two tablespoonfuls each of butter and flour cooked together. Add a tablespoonful of anchovy essence, the juice of half a lemon, and two tablespoonfuls of butter. Pour over the fish and serve.
PERCH À LA FRANÇAISE
Boil the perch in white wine, and when cooked, skin and arrange on a serving-dish. Pour over a Cream Sauce to which has been added chopped cooked carrots and mushrooms and a tablespoonful of minced parsley. Add also to the sauce a tablespoonful of butter and grated nutmeg and lemon-juice to season.
PERCH À LA MAÎTRE D'HÔTEL
Prepare according to directions given for Mullet à la Maître d'Hôtel.
PERCH À LA NORMANDY
Prepare and clean the fish and put into a stewpan with a chopped onion, a bunch of parsley, a pinch of salt, and enough white wine to cover. Simmer for fifteen minutes, take up the fish, and strain the liquid. Add one cupful of oyster liquor and boil the liquid until reduced half. Take from the fire, add one tablespoonful of butter and two of flour, cooked together, stir until smooth, return to the fire, and cook until thick, stirring constantly. Take from the fire and add slowly the yolks of three eggs well beaten. Bring to the boil, pour over the fish, and serve.
PERCH À LA SICILY
Cook three or four large perch for twenty minutes with a bunch of parsley in salted and acidulated water. Put into a saucepan one tablespoonful of malt vinegar, one tablespoonful of tarragon vinegar, a teaspoonful of minced parsley, a small chopped onion, a bay-leaf, and four pepper-corns. Boil for ten minutes, strain, and cool. Cook together four tablespoonfuls of butter and two of flour. When brown, add a pint of beef stock and cook until thick, stirring constantly. Take from the fire, add the strained vinegar, the beaten yolks of six eggs, and two tablespoonfuls of grated horseradish. Bring to the boil, pour over the fish, and serve.
PERCH À LA STANLEY
Clean four large perch, put into a saucepan with a tablespoonful of butter, a small bunch of parsley, a pint of Rhine wine, a pint of white stock, and salt and pepper to season. Simmer slowly until done, drain, and keep warm. Thicken the sauce with two tablespoonfuls each of butter and flour cooked together, take from the fire, add the yolks of four eggs beaten with the juice of a lemon and three tablespoonfuls of butter. Bring to the boil, add a dozen parboiled oysters, pour over the fish, and serve.
BAKED PERCH
Prepare and clean the fish, stuff with seasoned crumbs, and sew up. Bake with a little white wine and melted butter.
PERCH SALAD
Clean and boil the fish, drain, and cool. Serve very cold on lettuce with Mayonnaise.
TEN WAYS TO COOK PICKEREL
BROILED PICKEREL À LA MAÎTRE D'HÔTEL
Prepare and clean the fish and cut into pieces suitable for serving. Dip in seasoned oil, broil, and serve with Maître d'Hôtel Sauce.
FRIED PICKEREL—I
Prepare and clean the fish and cut into pieces suitable for serving. Dip in beaten egg and cracker dust and fry in deep fat.
FRIED PICKEREL—II
Prepare and clean the fish and cut into steaks. Dip in corn-meal and fry in hot fat. Add one cupful of cream to the fat remaining in the pan and thicken with one tablespoonful each of butter and flour cooked together. Season with salt and pepper, add a tablespoonful of minced parsley, pour over the fish and serve.
FRIED PICKEREL WITH TOMATO SAUCE
Prepare and clean the fish and cut into pieces of a suitable size for serving. Dip in milk, roll in flour, and fry brown in plenty of hot lard. Drain and serve with Tomato Sauce.
FRIED PICKEREL À LA CRÈME
Clean the fish and cut into pieces suitable for serving. Roll in flour, and fry diced salt pork crisp. Strain the fat, fry the fish in it, take up and keep warm. Add a tablespoonful of butter and a tablespoonful of flour to the fat remaining in the pan. When cooked, add enough cream to make the required quantity of sauce, and a pinch of soda. Cook until thick, stirring constantly, add the salt pork fat and pour over the fish.
BAKED PICKEREL—I
Lay the cleaned fish in a baking-pan, spread with butter, season with salt and pepper, and sprinkle with flour. Bake as usual, basting with a cupful of hot water to which has been added a tablespoonful of butter and the juice of half a lemon. Serve with any preferred sauce.
BAKED PICKEREL—II
Clean the fish, remove the backbone, and soak for an hour in a marinade of oil and lemon-juice. Cover the bottom of a baking-dish with thin slices of salt pork, lay the fish upon the pork, rub the fish with butter, cover and bake for forty minutes. Serve with Hollandaise or Tartar Sauce.
BAKED PICKEREL WITH OYSTER SAUCE
Lay the fish in a buttered baking-pan, spread with butter, season with salt and pepper and dredge with flour. Bake in a hot oven, basting with a cupful of hot water to which a tablespoonful of butter and the juice of a lemon have been added. Serve with Oyster Sauce.
BAKED PICKEREL WITH EGG SAUCE
Put the prepared fish in a buttered baking-pan, and bake slowly, basting with melted butter and hot water. Serve with Egg Sauce.
STUFFED PICKEREL
Prepare, clean, and split the fish. Remove the backbone and stuff with crumbs, seasoned with salt, pepper, sweet herbs, and melted butter. Mix with a beaten egg, stuff the fish, sew up, and bake, basting with melted butter as required.
PICKEREL À LA BABETTE
Butter a kettle and cover the bottom with sliced celery and onion. Lay the prepared and cleaned fish upon it, add a bunch of parsley and a tablespoonful of butter. Season with salt and white pepper, add a dozen peppercorns, a sliced lemon, a dozen pounded almonds, and cold water to cover. Simmer slowly until done. Take up the fish, beat the yolks of three eggs with a tablespoonful of cold water, take out the parsley, thicken the sauce, pour over the fish, sprinkle with parsley and serve.
TWENTY WAYS TO COOK PIKE.
FRIED PIKE—I
Prepare and clean the fish, and cut into pieces suitable for serving. Fry brown in butter, add to the butter a teaspoonful of anchovy essence, a bit of ginger root, a grating of nutmeg, salt and pepper to season, and enough Claret to cover. Simmer until tender, add the juice of an orange and a teaspoonful of butter. Serve with sauce poured over the fish.
FRIED PIKE—II
Clean the fish and cut it into pieces suitable for serving. Dip in egg and crumbs and fry in oil.
FRIED PIKE À LA HOLLANDAISE
Clean the fish and cut it into steaks. Soak for two hours in a marinade of oil and lemon-juice, seasoning with pepper, salt, minced parsley, and grated nutmeg. Drain, dip in flour, fry in lard, and serve with Hollandaise Sauce.
BOILED PIKE WITH MELTED BUTTER
Boil the fish with a bunch of parsley in salted and acidulated water to cover. Serve with melted butter, seasoned with salt, pepper, grated nutmeg, and lemon-juice.
BOILED PIKE WITH CAPER SAUCE
Prepare and clean a fish, put into a fish-kettle, and simmer for forty minutes in court-bouillon to cover. Serve with Caper Sauce.
BOILED PIKE WITH HORSERADISH SAUCE
Boil a large fish in salted and acidulated water with a bunch of parsley. Cook together two tablespoonfuls each of butter and flour, add three cupfuls of cream, and cook until thick, stirring constantly. Season with salt and pepper, add two tablespoonfuls of butter and three tablespoonfuls of freshly grated horseradish. Pour over the fish, and serve.
BOILED PIKE WITH EGG SAUCE
Put the cleaned fish into a fish-kettle and cover with cold water. Add half a cupful of vinegar, a teaspoonful each of cloves and pepper-corns, a bay-leaf, half a lemon sliced, and a tablespoonful of salt. Boil until the fins pull off easily, take up and skin the fish carefully. Pour over an Egg Sauce made with a portion of the liquid in which the fish was cooked.
BOILED PIKE À LA DUBOIS
Prepare and clean the fish and cook it in equal parts of white wine and water, adding minced carrots and celery, sweet herbs and parsley, half a dozen pepper-corns, and salt to season. Cook together one tablespoonful each of butter and flour, add two cupfuls of the liquid and cook until thick, stirring constantly. Add a teaspoonful of Worcestershire Sauce and two tablespoonfuls of butter. Pour over the fish and serve.
BAKED PIKE—I
Clean a four-pound pike and put into a buttered baking-pan with enough hot water to keep from burning. Score the upper side deeply, cover with chopped salt pork, sprinkle with salt and pepper and dredge with flour. Bake for half an hour, basting as required. Serve with any preferred sauce.
BAKED PIKE—II
Put the cleaned fish into a buttered baking-dish with two onions sliced, two bay-leaves, pepper and salt to season, and one cupful of sour cream. Rub the fish with butter, sprinkle thickly with bread crumbs and grated Parmesan cheese, and bake until brown. Pour the liquid remaining in the pan around the fish and serve.
BAKED PIKE À LA FRANÇAISE
Marinate the prepared fish for two hours in oil and lemon-juice, seasoning with salt, pepper, chopped onion, and minced parsley. Put into the oven in the marinade, adding one cupful of stock and a wineglassful of white wine. Bake slowly, basting as required. Take up the fish, strain the sauce, thicken with a tablespoonful each of butter and flour cooked together, season with anchovy essence, add two tablespoonfuls of butter and two tablespoonfuls of capers. Pour over the fish and serve.
STUFFED AND BAKED PIKE
Clean and draw the fish, stuff with seasoned crumbs, sew up and put into a buttered baking-dish in the form of a circle. Score the fish deeply, sprinkle with pepper and salt, minced parsley, chopped onion, and chopped mushrooms. Add a cupful of Sherry and a cupful of beef stock, cover, and bake, basting frequently with the liquid. Take up the fish carefully, and add to the liquid enough stock to make the required quantity of sauce. Thicken with two tablespoonfuls of flour cooked brown in butter, add two tablespoonfuls of butter, lemon-juice, red pepper, and anchovy essence to season. Pour over the fish, and serve.
PIKE BAKED IN SOUR CREAM.
Clean a four-pound pike, cut into steaks, and free from skin and bone. Put into a buttered baking-dish with two small onions chopped and two bay-leaves. Season with salt and cayenne, add one cupful of sour cream and bake. Put on a serving-dish, cover with crumbs and dots of butter and brown in the oven. Add enough stock to the liquid to make the required quantity of sauce, thicken with butter and flour, season, add a dash of lemon-juice, pour around the fish, sprinkle with minced parsley and serve.
PIKE SALAD
Flake cold cooked pike with a silver fork, mix with Mayonnaise and chopped capers, and serve very cold on lettuce leaves.
ROASTED PIKE
Prepare a large fish, stuff with seasoned crumbs, and sew up. Spread with butter, sprinkle with chopped onion, minced parsley, minced pickle, and pounded anchovies. Sprinkle with salt and pepper, put in a buttered baking-dish, and bake slowly for an hour, basting with melted butter as required. Add half a cupful of white wine and one cupful of white stock to the drippings. Thicken with a tablespoonful each of butter and flour cooked together, take from the fire, add two tablespoonfuls of butter and the yolks of three eggs beaten with the juice of a lemon. Bring to the boil, pour over the fish and serve.
PIKE À L'ALLEMANDE
Prepare according to directions given for Carp à l'Allemande.
CRIMPED PIKE À LA HOLLANDAISE
Prepare and clean the fish and cut into steaks. Soak in ice-water for two hours. Boil until tender in salted and acidulated water to cover and serve with Hollandaise Sauce.
PIKE À LA FRANÇAISE
Cut a cleaned and prepared pike into thick steaks, and marinate for two hours in oil and lemon-juice, seasoned with salt, pepper, minced onion and parsley, and a pinch of sweet herbs. Drain, dip in crumbs, and broil. Serve with any preferred sauce.
PIKE À LA NORMANDY
Clean and draw a large fish and tie in a circle. Put into a fish-kettle with sliced onion, a bay-leaf, a pinch of thyme, a sprig of parsley, and salt and pepper to season. Add two cupfuls each of white wine and white stock and enough water to cover. Add a tablespoonful of butter, cover and simmer for forty minutes. Take up the fish, strain the sauce and thicken with two tablespoonfuls each of butter and flour cooked together. Take from the fire, add the yolks of four eggs beaten with the juice of a lemon, and two tablespoonfuls of butter. Strain over the fish and serve.
PICKLED PIKE
Draw and clean a pike, put into a fish-kettle, cover with Claret, add three bay-leaves, and simmer until tender. Let cool in the liquor. Serve with French dressing, Mayonnaise, or Tartar Sauce.
TEN WAYS TO COOK POMPANO
BROILED POMPANO—I
Clean and split the fish, sprinkle with salt and pepper, rub with butter, and broil. Squeeze lemon-juice over it and serve.
BROILED POMPANO—II
Split the fish, remove the backbone, season with salt and pepper, and put on a tin sheet. Rub with butter and broil under the gas flame.
BROILED POMPANO—III
Clean and split the fish, rub with oil, sprinkle with salt and pepper, roll in crumbs, and broil.
BROILED POMPANO À LA MAÎTRE D'HÔTEL
Clean and split the fish, rub with salt, pepper, and olive-oil, and broil. Serve with Maître d'Hôtel Sauce.
FRIED POMPANO—I
Cut the cleaned fish into slices, dredge with flour, and fry brown in butter. Serve with any preferred sauce.
FRIED POMPANO—II
Cut the cleaned fish into strips, season with salt, pepper, and nutmeg, dip in egg and crumbs and fry in fat to cover.
FILLETS OF POMPANO
Cut a prepared and cleaned pompano into strips. Marinate for an hour in oil and vinegar, seasoned with salt and pepper. Drain, dip in crumbs, then in egg, then in crumbs, and put in a buttered paper and bake until done. Serve with Tomato Sauce.
FILLETS OF POMPANO À LA DUCHESSE
Cut a cleaned pompano into strips, sprinkle with salt, pepper, and onion-juice, and put into a small baking-pan. Steam until done, take up carefully and spread each one with seasoned mashed potato mixed with well-beaten egg. Bake in the oven until puffed and brown and serve immediately.
FILLETS OF POMPANO AU GRATIN
Split the fish in two lengthwise, and remove the bone and skin. Cut into strips, season with salt, pepper, and butter, roll up, and tie or fasten with toothpicks or skewers. Simmer slowly until done in equal parts of white wine and water, adding a little Maître d'Hôtel Sauce.
POMPANO À LA CARDINAL
Butter a baking-dish and lay upon it a large cleaned and split pompano. Open a can of sweet Spanish peppers, drain, and cover the fish with them. Sprinkle with chopped onion, minced parsley, chopped mushrooms, crumbs, and dots of butter. Add one cupful of stock, and a wineglassful of Port wine. Bake for twenty minutes, basting as required, take up carefully, and serve with fried sweet potatoes.
THIRTEEN WAYS TO COOK RED SNAPPER
FRIED RED SNAPPER
Clean the fish, skin, and remove the backbone. Slice lengthwise in long thin strips, roll up and fasten with a toothpick or skewer. Dip in egg, then in cracker dust, and fry in deep fat. Serve with Tartar Sauce.
BOILED RED SNAPPER—I
Clean and draw the fish and boil slowly in salted and acidulated water to cover. Drain and serve with any preferred sauce.
BOILED RED SNAPPER—II
Clean a red snapper, sew it up in mosquito netting, and boil it in salted and acidulated water. Drain carefully, unwrap, and serve with Tomato Sauce.
BAKED RED SNAPPER—I
Prepare and clean the fish, stuff with seasoned crumbs and chopped oysters. Put on a buttered tin sheet and lay into a baking-pan. Sprinkle with salt, pepper, and flour and bake for an hour, basting with melted butter and hot water as required. Serve with any preferred sauce.
BAKED RED SNAPPER—II
Clean and season the fish, rub with vinegar, and put into a baking-pan. Dot with butter, sprinkle with parsley, and bake, basting with melted butter and hot water as required. Serve with Tomato Sauce.
BAKED RED SNAPPER—III
Clean the fish, leaving the head on, and stuff with seasoned crumbs, cover with sliced tomatoes and sliced lemon, and bake, basting occasionally with melted butter and hot water.
BAKED RED SNAPPER WITH TOMATO SAUCE
Season four pounds of prepared and cleaned red snapper with salt and pepper. Cover with thin slices of bacon, dredge with flour, and put into a buttered baking-pan with two cupfuls of boiling water. Bake slowly. While it is baking fry brown two slices of chopped bacon, add a chopped onion, a pepper pod, a can of tomatoes, and salt and black pepper to taste. Cook until it thickens, pour over the fish, and finish baking. Take up carefully.
BAKED RED SNAPPER À LA CRÉOLE
Clean, split, and bone a large red snapper, lay it together again, sprinkle with salt and pepper, and put into a buttered baking-pan. Fry in butter a chopped onion, half a dozen sliced mushrooms, two fresh tomatoes, and one green pepper chopped. Add a cupful of stock, spread over the fish and bake for twenty minutes, basting with melted butter and hot water as required. Take up carefully, sprinkle with minced parsley, and serve.
STUFFED RED SNAPPER
Make a stuffing of one cupful of chopped oysters, half a cupful of cracker crumbs, one egg well beaten, a teaspoonful of chopped onion, a tablespoonful of butter, a tablespoonful of minced parsley, and salt, pepper, and paprika to season. Add cream or oyster liquor to make soft, fill the fish, and sew up. Put a layer of salt pork, sliced tomato, and sliced onion into a baking-pan, lay the fish upon it, cover with chopped salt pork, sprinkle with salt, pepper, and flour, add two cupfuls of stock and bake for an hour, basting as required. Take up the fish carefully, rub the tomatoes and liquid through a purée sieve, thicken with butter and flour cooked together, pour around the fish, and serve.
STUFFED RED SNAPPER À LA CRÉOLE
Cook together a can of tomatoes, six chopped onions, a cupful of dry bread crumbs, a tablespoonful of Worcestershire Sauce, three tablespoonfuls of butter, and salt, red and black pepper to season. Stuff the prepared and cleaned red snapper with the mixture, sew up, spread with the remaining dressing, dot with butter, and bake for an hour. Take up carefully.
STEAMED RED SNAPPER
Lay a cleaned red snapper in a steamer on a bed of sliced tomatoes and chopped onion. Steam slowly for an hour or more, turning once. Serve with Oyster or Tartar Sauce.
RED SNAPPER À LA BABETTE
Clean the fish and rub with salt and pepper inside and out. Boil in salted water to which has been added a small bunch of parsley, a celery root, two sliced onions, a chopped carrot, and a blade of mace. When done, take up, sprinkle with crumbs, dot with butter, and brown in the oven. Strain the liquid, thicken with butter and flour cooked together, pour around the fish, and serve.
RED SNAPPER À LA BEAUFORT
Put the prepared and cleaned fish into a fish-kettle with a pint each of white wine, white stock, and water, adding salt and sweet herbs to season, and half a cupful of mixed vegetables cut fine. Simmer for an hour, drain, skin, and put on a serving-dish. Strain the liquid, thicken with two tablespoonfuls each of butter and flour cooked together, add a teaspoonful of beef extract, salt and cayenne pepper to season, take from the fire, add the yolks of four eggs, beaten with the juice of a lemon and two tablespoonfuls of butter, pour over the fish, and serve.
ONE HUNDRED AND THIRTY WAYS TO COOK SALMON
BROILED SALMON—I
Marinate slices of salmon in olive-oil with salt and pepper, minced parsley, bay-leaves, and mixed herbs to season. Soak in the marinade for an hour or more and broil, basting with the marinade. Serve with Caper Sauce.
BROILED SALMON—II
Take a young fish weighing from four to six pounds, clean, split, remove the backbone and broil. Sprinkle with lemon-juice and red pepper.
BROILED SALMON—III
Take three pounds of the tail part of the salmon, let it stand for six hours in a marinade of oil and lemon-juice, with minced parsley, two bay-leaves and a sprig of thyme. Drain and broil. Serve with Maître d'Hôtel Sauce to which a teaspoonful of chopped chives has been added.
SALMON BROILED IN PAPER
Season salmon steaks with pepper and salt, wrap in buttered paper, twisting the ends, broil and serve with Anchovy or Caper Sauce.
BROILED SALMON STEAKS—I
Season with pepper and salt, broil carefully on a buttered gridiron, pour over melted butter, garnish with parsley, and serve.
BROILED SALMON STEAKS—II
Sprinkle with pepper and salt, dredge with flour, and broil, basting with melted butter as required. Spread with melted butter, or with Maître d'Hôtel Sauce.
BROILED SALMON STEAKS—III
Marinate the steaks for an hour in oil and lemon-juice, seasoning with salt and pepper. Broil carefully and serve with any preferred sauce.
BROILED SALMON À LA RAVIGOTE
Marinate salmon steaks in seasoned oil and lemon-juice, and broil quickly. Serve with Ravigote Sauce.
SALMON CUTLETS IN PAPILLOTES
Butter large sheets of white paper, sprinkle with crumbs, and fold tightly over small cutlets of salmon. Broil carefully over a slow fire and serve in the papers.
SALMON CUTLETS WITH CAPER SAUCE
Marinate for two hours slices of salmon in oil with minced parsley and onion. Dip large pieces of paper in oil and wrap carefully around each slice, fastening firmly. Broil carefully and serve with a Cream Sauce to which capers have been added.
SALMON STEAKS WITH PARSLEY SAUCE
Season salmon steaks, dip in melted butter, then in corn-meal, and broil. Cook together two tablespoonfuls each of butter and flour, add two cupfuls of cold water, and cook until thick, stirring constantly. Take from the fire, season with salt and pepper, add the juice of half a lemon and a tablespoonful of minced parsley, and pour over the fish.
BOILED SALMON—I
Wash and wipe a small salmon, wrap in a cloth, tie securely and put into the fish-kettle. Cover with cold water, add a handful of salt, and boil slowly until done. Cook together one tablespoonful each of butter and of flour, add two cupfuls of boiling cream and a tablespoonful of the water in which the fish is cooked. Cook until thick, stirring constantly, season with salt and minced parsley, pour over the fish, and serve.
BOILED SALMON—II
Chop together a carrot, an onion and a stalk of celery. Fry in butter, add half a cupful of vinegar, four cloves, four pepper-corns, a bay-leaf, a sprig of parsley, and six cupfuls of boiling water. Boil for an hour, strain, cool, and boil the salmon in it. Serve with any preferred sauce.
BOILED SALMON WITH EGG SAUCE
Tie a large chunk of salmon in mosquito netting and simmer until done in salted and acidulated water. Drain, skin, and, if possible, remove the bone. Serve with Drawn-Butter Sauce to which chopped hard-boiled eggs have been added.
BOILED SALMON WITH GREEN SAUCE
Boil a small salmon in salted and acidulated water. Take up carefully and reduce the liquid by rapid boiling to two cupfuls. Cook together two tablespoonfuls each of butter and flour, add the reduced liquid, and cook until thick, stirring constantly. Take from the fire, add two tablespoonfuls of chopped capers, one tablespoonful of chopped parsley, the juice of a lemon, and one tablespoonful of butter. Pour over the fish and serve.
BOILED SALMON STEAKS—I
Wrap each steak separately in mosquito netting. Put into boiling water to which has been added a slice of onion, a bay-leaf, a blade of mace, four tablespoonfuls of tarragon vinegar, and a teaspoonful of salt. Simmer for twenty minutes, remove carefully, drain, and serve with any preferred sauce.
BOILED SALMON STEAKS—II
Boil the steaks slowly in salted and acidulated water to cover or in court-bouillon seasoned with wine. Serve with Hollandaise Sauce.
BOILED SALMON STEAKS—III
Cook the steaks in water to cover and add a celery root, a small bunch of parsley, salt and pepper to season, and a tablespoonful of vinegar. Strain the liquid, thicken with a tablespoonful each of butter and flour cooked together, pour over the fish, and serve.
BOILED SALMON À LA PIQUANT
Boil slices of salmon in court-bouillon seasoned with wine. Drain, garnish with parsley, and serve with Piquant Sauce.
BOILED SALMON À LA WALDORF
Boil a large piece of salmon in salted and acidulated water, seasoned with herbs and spice. Drain and keep warm. Add two cupfuls of the liquid in which the fish was cooked, one wineglassful of white wine, and two anchovies rubbed to a paste. Boil for fifteen minutes, then add in small bits a tablespoonful of butter. Serve the sauce separately.
SALMON WITH OYSTER SAUCE
Boil two pounds of fresh salmon in salted and acidulated water to cover, with a chopped onion, two cloves, eight pepper-corns, and a small bunch of parsley. Drain, and serve with Oyster Sauce.
SALMON CUTLETS WITH OYSTER SAUCE
Boil large slices of salmon in salted water until done. Fry a small onion, chopped, in oil, add four dozen oysters, cut small, two tablespoonfuls of flour, the liquor drained from the oysters, two teaspoonfuls of sugar, and pepper, salt, and anchovy essence to season. When thick, take from the fire, add the beaten yolks of four eggs, and reheat but do not boil. Pour the sauce into a platter, and cool. Lay the slices of salmon on the sauce, brush with egg, sprinkle with crumbs and brown in the oven.
SALMON À LA SUPRÊME
Boil a salmon in court-bouillon with wine, drain, cool, skin, and serve with Tartar Sauce.
MAYONNAISE OF SALMON
Cook fresh salmon in a court-bouillon, drain, cool, skin, and serve with Mayonnaise.
SALMON PUDDING
Flake the fish, add half the quantity of bread crumbs, a tablespoonful of melted butter, a teaspoonful of onion juice, and pepper and salt to season. Beat two eggs light with two tablespoonfuls of cream, mix with the fish, put into a buttered mould and boil for an hour and a half. Serve with a Cream Sauce seasoned with lemon-juice and anchovy paste.
BAKED SALMON—I
Put four salmon steaks into a buttered saucepan with two cupfuls each of white wine and white stock. Season with salt, pepper, grated nutmeg, minced parsley, and a pinch of allspice. Add a heaping teaspoonful of butter and flour cooked together. Take from the fire, add the yolks of four eggs well beaten and a little minced parsley. Arrange a mound of seasoned mashed potatoes in a deep platter. Take the skin from the steaks and arrange them around it. Pour the sauce over, sprinkle with crumbs, dot with butter, and brown in the oven.
BAKED SALMON—II
Wash and wipe a small fish. Rub with pepper and salt and sprinkle with paprika and powdered mace. Bake carefully, basting with melted butter and its own dripping. Take up the fish carefully and add to the gravy enough stock or water to make the required quantity of sauce. Thicken with butter and flour cooked together, season with tomato catsup and lemon-juice. Pour around the fish and serve.
BAKED SALMON—III
Rub a small cleaned salmon with olive-oil, sprinkle with salt and pepper, put into a buttered baking-pan, and add one cupful of boiling water and two tablespoonfuls of butter. Baste every ten minutes until done. Take up the fish and keep it warm. Thicken the gravy with a teaspoonful or more of cornstarch mixed with a little cold water. Season with grated onion, lemon-juice, and tomato catsup.
BAKED SALMON WITH CREAM SAUCE
Wrap a large middle cut of salmon in buttered paper and fasten firmly. Bake in a buttered baking-pan, basting with butter melted in hot water. Take from the oven at the end of an hour, remove the paper carefully, and keep warm. Bring to the boil one cupful of cream and add one tablespoonful of corn-starch rubbed smooth with a little cold cream. Add one tablespoonful each of butter and minced parsley, and pepper and salt to season. Pour the sauce over the fish or serve separately.
SALMON BAKED IN PAPER
Season a large piece of salmon with salt, pepper, and lemon-juice, wrap in a large piece of buttered paper and pin firmly. Put into a buttered baking-pan, cover and bake for an hour, basting frequently with hot water and melted butter. Take off the paper and serve with any preferred sauce.
BAKED SALMON STEAKS
Put the steaks in a buttered baking-dish. Lay bits of butter upon them, seasoning with salt, pepper, minced parsley, and grated onion. Bake carefully, basting as required, and serve with Caper or Tomato Sauce.
BAKED SALMON CUTLETS
Put salmon steaks into a buttered baking-pan with half a cupful of hot water and half a cupful of white wine. Sprinkle with salt, paprika, and grated nutmeg. Cover with raw oysters and crumbs fried in butter. Bake for twenty minutes. Take up the fish carefully. Cook together one tablespoonful each of butter and flour, add the liquor from the pan and a teaspoonful of anchovy paste. Cook until thick, stirring constantly, pour around the fish, and serve.
SALMON À LA WINDSOR
Season salmon steaks with salt and pepper, dip in egg and crumbs, put into a buttered baking-pan, and bake quickly. Serve with any preferred sauce.
STUFFED SALMON
Clean, bone, and parboil a small salmon. Rub the inside with salt, pepper, and grated nutmeg. Stuff with chopped oysters, minced parsley, and seasoned crumbs. Fold together, put into a buttered baking-dish, and bake for half an hour, basting with its own dripping.
SALMON STEAKS À LA FLAMANDE
Sprinkle a buttered dripping-pan with chopped onion, and season with pepper and salt. Lay salmon steaks on top, brush with the yolk of a beaten egg, cover with a layer of chopped onion and parsley, season with salt, red pepper, lemon-juice, and dots of butter, and bake for half an hour.
SALMON EN PAPILLOTES
Use six small salmon steaks. Season with salt and pepper. Butter sheets of white paper a little larger than the steaks and lay on each one a thin slice of lean boiled ham. Cook together in butter a chopped onion, a handful of chopped mushrooms, a minced bean of garlic, and a tablespoonful of minced parsley. Spread a thin layer on the ham, lay a slice of salmon upon it, spread with the cooked vegetables, cover with another slice of ham, put another piece of oiled paper over, and fold carefully at the edges. Bake in a moderate oven for fifteen or twenty minutes, and serve in the papers.
FILLETS OF SALMON EN PAPILLOTES
Cut salmon steaks into fillets, dip into melted butter and lemon-juice, fold in buttered paper, and bake for half an hour in a slow oven. Serve in the papers and pass Hollandaise Sauce.
SALMON CUTLETS EN PAPILLOTES
Cut slices of salmon into cutlets. Beat together three tablespoonfuls of olive-oil, the yolk of an egg, a teaspoonful of minced onion and a tablespoonful of chopped parsley. Sprinkle the fish with salt and pepper, spread the mixture over, fold each piece in buttered paper, fastening securely, and bake for half an hour. Serve in the papers.
FRIED SALMON—I
Cut slices of salmon into small pieces and put into a saucepan with pepper, salt, minced parsley, and lemon-juice to season. Add sufficient butter and fry carefully. Serve with Ravigote or any preferred sauce.
FRIED SALMON—II
Wrap slices of salmon in oiled paper, fastening firmly, and fry in deep fat. Drain carefully and serve in the paper.
FRIED SALMON—III
Sprinkle salmon steaks with salt and flour, brush with the beaten yolk of an egg and fry in hot olive-oil. Drain, garnish with fried parsley, and serve.
FRIED SALMON STEAKS
Dredge the steaks with seasoned flour or dip into egg and seasoned crumbs and fry.
FRIED SALMON CUTLETS—I
Steam salmon steaks, cool, cut into fillets, dip in egg and crumbs, fry in deep fat, and serve with Tartar or Hollandaise Sauce.