A new system of domestic cookery : formed upon principles of economy, and adapted to the use of private families / by a lady. With many new receipts ... [etc.].

  • Rundell, Maria Eliza Ketelby, 1745-1828.
Date:
1861
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Credit: A new system of domestic cookery : formed upon principles of economy, and adapted to the use of private families / by a lady. With many new receipts ... [etc.]. Source: Wellcome Collection.

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    FISH. JS) and savoury, mixed -with the spices, greatly improve the taste. To slew Lam'prey as at Worcester. After cleaning the fish carefully, remove the cartilage ^ ivhich runs down the back, and season with a small quantity of cloves, mace, nutmeg, pepper, and all- spice ; put it into a small stew-pot, with very strong beef gravy, port, and an equal quantity of Madeira, or sherry. It must be covered close; stew till tender, then take out the lamprey and keep hot, while you boil up the liquor with two or three anchovies chopped, and some Hour and butter; strain the gravy through a sieve, and add lemon-juice and some made mustard. Serve with sippets of bread and horse-radish. Eels, done the same way, are a good deal like tho lamprey. When there is spawn, it must be fried and put round. Note.—Cyder will do in common instead of white- wine. FLOUNDERS. Let them be rubbed with salt inside and out, and lie two hours to give them some firmness. Dip them into egg; cover with crumbs, and fry them. Water Souchy. Stew two or three flounders, some parsley-leaves and roots, thirty pepper-corns, and a quart of water, till the fish are boiled to pieces; pulp them through a sieve. Set over the fire the pulped fish, the liquor that boiled them, some perch, tench, or flounders, and some fresh leaves and roots of parsley; simmer all till done enough, then serve in a deep dish. Slices of bread and butter are to be sent to table, to eat with tho souchy. HERRINGS AND SPRATS. To Smoke Herrings. Clean, and lay them in salt and a little saltpetre one