SALMON
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SALMON A LA MORNAY
4 cooked potatoes
Buttered crumbs
l /2 cup Swiss cheese
1 cup medium white sauce
1 egg-yolk
2 cups boiled salmon
Mash the potatoes and line a greased baking-dish with them. Add the cheese and egg-yolk to the white sauce and pour half of it over the potatoes. Add the fish and cover it with the remaining sauce and buttered bread-crumbs. Bake in the oven (350 F.) for twenty minutes.
SALMON PUFFS
2 cups cooked salmon, fresh or canned
l /2 cup soft bread-crumbs
1 tablespoon lemon-juice
Salt and pepper
3 eggs
Remove the skin and bones from the salmon, chop the meat fine, and add salt, white pepper or paprika, soft bread-crumbs, lemon- juice or vinegar, and egg-yolks. Mix thoroughly, add the well beaten egg-whites, and place in six or eight oiled cups, filling the cups even full. Set the cups at once in a pan containing hot water that comes to about an inch below their tops, and bake for one-half hour in moderate oven (375 F.). Turn out upon a hot platter, thrust a sprig of parsley or celery, or a clove, into the center of each puff, and pour about them any desired fish sauce.
SALMON AU GRATIN
1 cup cooked salmon, fresh or canned
Salt and pepper
2 tablespoons lemon-juice
1 cup drawn-butter sauce
Bread-crumbs, cheese
Flake the cold salmon, mix with the drawn butter, salt, pepper and lemon -juice. Fill little earthen dishes with the mixture, cover with fine bread-crumbs, with or without cheese, and brown in the oven at 400 F.
SALMON LOAF
2 cups cooked salmon, fresh or canned
4 tablespoons butter
Salt and pepper
2 eggs
Minced parsley
l /2 cup fine bread-crumbs
Flake the fish, add the eggs beaten lightly, the melted butter, the bread-crumbs, salt, pepper and minced parsley. Put into a greased mold, and steam for an hour. When cold, arrange on a platter and garnish with slices of lemon, cucumber, and parsley.
Broiled Salmon
Cut six slices of salmon, sprinkle with salt and pepper, dip in beaten eggs and bread crumbs. Place in a saucepan, cook both sides quickly. Drain and lay them in a dish. Garnish them with a few pieces of lemon dipped in parsley chopped fine and some eggs fried in oil.
Boiled Salmon
Sew as many pounds as desired up in a cheese-cloth bag, and boil for a quarter of an hour to the pound, in slightly salted water. When done, take out and lay upon a dish, being careful not to break the fish. Prepare a small cupful of drawn butter, in which had been stirred a teaspoonful of minced parsley and the juice of one-fourth of a lemon. Pour over the salmon and serve. Garnish with parsley. The choicest portion of the salmon is that at the center and toward the tail.
Salmon Salad
Remove bones and skin from salmon. Drain off- liquid. Mix with French dressing or thin mayonnaise ; set away for awhile. When ready to serve line the salad bowl with crisp lettuce leaves, and after mixing the salmon thoroughly with mayonnaise place it on the lettuce. Serve with toasted crackers and cheese. Other fish salads may be prepared in same manner.
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.
FRIED SALMON CUTLETS—II
Prepare very thick Cream Sauce and mix with it cold cooked salmon cut fine. Season with red pepper, salt, and lemon-juice and let cool. Shape into cutlets, dip into beaten egg, then in crumbs, and fry in deep fat.
FRIED SALMON CUTLETS—III
Rub cold boiled salmon smooth with one-third the quantity of mashed potatoes. Season with salt, pepper, and pounded mace. Shape into cutlets, dip in egg and crumbs and fry in deep fat. Serve with any preferred sauce.
SALMON CUTLETS À L'ANGLAISE
Cut slices of salmon in the shape of cutlets, season with salt and pepper and fry in butter. Drain and serve with Ravigote Sauce.
SALMON À LA LYONS
Fry slices of salmon in butter with pepper and salt to season. Serve with a Hollandaise Sauce to which cooked oysters, cooked shrimps, and minced parsley have been added.
SALMON CUTLETS WITH MILANAISE SAUCE
Cut slices of salmon into small pieces, dip into white wine and wrap in buttered paper, fastening securely. Fry carefully in butter, remove the papers, garnish with parsley, and serve with Milanaise Sauce.
FILLETS OF SALMON À L'ORLY
Cut fresh salmon into small pieces, remove the skin, and marinate for an hour in lemon-juice seasoned with salt and pepper. Drain, dip in egg and crumbs, fry in deep fat, and serve with Tomato Sauce.
SALMON À L'ALLEMANDE
Put a large middle cut of salmon into a saucepan, with a sliced carrot, a large onion, a bunch of parsley, salt and pepper to season, half a cupful of butter, two cupfuls of Claret, and enough stock to cover. Cover with buttered paper and cook slowly for an hour. Take up the fish carefully and keep warm. Strain the liquid, skim the fat, and thicken with butter and flour cooked together until brown. Add a tablespoonful of butter, seasoned with lemon-juice and anchovy essence, pour over the fish, and serve.
SALMON À L'ADMIRAL
Fry in butter two chopped onions, two parsley roots, a bunch of chopped parsley with a sprig of thyme, a broken bay-leaf, a clove, and three small chopped carrots. Add one cupful of white wine, put a small cleaned salmon into a buttered baking-dish, spread the vegetables over, cover, and cook until tender, basting with the drippings or with hot water if needed. Take out the fish, strain the liquid, add to it a cupful of cream and thicken with a tablespoonful each of butter and flour cooked together. Pour it around the fish and garnish with lemon and parsley.
SALMON À LA BORDEAUX
Clean a small salmon, stuff with seasoned crumbs and oysters, and put into a fish-kettle with two tablespoonfuls of butter, two onions sliced, a bunch of parsley, and salt, pepper, and grated nutmeg to season. Add two cupfuls each of stock, water, and white wine. Cover the fish with buttered paper and simmer for an hour. Drain the fish and keep warm. Prepare a sauce according to directions given in the recipe for Salmon à la Genoise, using the liquid strained from the fish.
SALMON À LA CANDACE
Put a large cut of salmon on the drainer in a fish-kettle and cover it with a small slice of raw ham. Add two cupfuls of Rhine wine, a quart of stock, and a bunch of parsley. Cover with buttered paper, simmer for an hour, drain, and remove the skin. Strain the liquid, thicken with flour cooked brown in butter, add a tablespoonful of butter, cayenne, and lemon-juice to season. Bring to the boil, pour over the fish, and serve.
SALMON À LA CHAMBORD
Put a large middle cut of salmon into a saucepan with sliced carrots and onions, a bunch of parsley, two tablespoonfuls of butter and two cupfuls each of white wine and white stock. Season with salt and pepper-corns, cover, and simmer slowly for an hour. Take up the fish carefully and keep warm. Strain the liquid and thicken with flour cooked brown in butter. Add half a cupful of stewed and strained tomatoes, the juice of a lemon, two tablespoonfuls of butter, and a teaspoonful of anchovy essence. Pour over the fish and serve.
SALMON À L'ESPAGNOLE
Cut fresh salmon in small pieces suitable for serving, and fry in butter. Drain and keep warm. Add two tablespoonfuls of flour to the butter, in which the fish is cooked, and brown. Add two cupfuls of stock and cook until thick, stirring constantly. Take from the fire, add a tablespoonful of butter, a teaspoonful of minced parsley, and the juice of a lemon. Pour over the fish and serve.
SALMON À LA GENOISE
Boil a small fresh salmon in salted and acidulated water to cover, drain, and skin. Arrange on a serving-dish and keep warm. Chop fine a small slice of ham, a slice of carrot, a small stalk of celery, an onion, a parsley root, and three or four shallots. Add a sprig of thyme, a bay-leaf, a blade of mace, and two cloves. Fry in butter, add two tablespoonfuls of flour and cook until brown. Add two cupfuls of Claret and cook until thick, stirring constantly. Add half a cupful of beef stock, bring to the boil, and strain through a sieve. Reheat, add a tablespoonful of butter, and minced parsley, lemon-juice, grated nutmeg, and anchovy essence to season. Pour around the fish and serve.
SALMON À L'ITALIENNE
Flake cold salmon fine with a silver fork and mix with an equal quantity of cold cooked spaghetti cut fine. Reheat in a Cream Sauce, add a few capers and serve very hot.
SALMON STEAKS À LA MARINIÈRE
Marinate salmon steaks in seasoned oil, drain, and broil. Cover with small boiled onions and cooked oysters. Pour over a sauce made according to directions given in the recipe for Salmon à la Genoise, and serve.
SALMON À LA MARSEILLES
Boil a small salmon in salted and acidulated water. Skin and put on a serving-dish. Spread over it some very thick Cream Sauce, sprinkle with crumbs, brush with beaten egg, cover with crumbs again, sprinkle with salt, pepper, and grated nutmeg, and brown in the oven. Serve with a sauce made of equal parts of white wine and stock, thickened with butter and flour cooked together.
SALMON À LA MARYLAND
Prepare and clean a small salmon and simmer in salted water until done. Prepare a Drawn-Butter Sauce and add to it half a cupful of butter. When the butter is melted, take from the fire and add quickly two eggs beaten with the juice of half a lemon. Pour the sauce over the fish and serve.
SALMON À LA NAPLES
Fry salmon steaks in butter, seasoning with salt, pepper, and grated nutmeg. When half cooked, add half a cupful of white wine to the butter, cover, and simmer slowly until done. Cover the salmon with cooked oysters, pour the liquid remaining in the pan over the fish, and serve.
SALMON À LA PROVENCE
Season four salmon steaks and cook with a tablespoonful of butter and the juice of a lemon. Add a dozen oysters, half a dozen small shrimps, and one cupful of white stock thickened with flour and butter cooked together. Simmer until the oysters are cooked, take from the fire, add the yolk of an egg beaten smooth with a tablespoonful of Sherry, and serve with triangles of fried bread.
SALMON À LA PROVENÇALE
Put a large cut of salmon into a saucepan and cover with salted and acidulated water. Add a sliced onion, a carrot, a bunch of parsley, and salt, pepper, sweet herbs, and a pinch of allspice to season. Cover the fish with buttered paper and cook slowly for an hour. Chop together a small onion, a clove of garlic, and a few sprigs of parsley. Fry in olive-oil, add two tablespoonfuls of flour, and cook until the flour is brown. Add two cupfuls of brown stock and one cupful of stewed and strained tomato. Cook until thick, stirring constantly, seasoning with red and white pepper and lemon-juice. Remove the skin from the fish, pour the hot sauce over it, and serve.
FILLETS OF SALMON À LA VÉNITIENNE
Put salmon steaks into a buttered baking-pan with fine match-like strips of larding pork laid on each side. Season with salt, pepper, and lemon-juice, add one cupful of white wine and cover with a sheet of buttered paper, having a small hole in the centre. Bake for forty minutes, basting often. Cook together one tablespoonful each of butter and flour, add one cupful of stock, and cook until thick, stirring constantly. Add a tablespoonful each of butter and lemon-juice and a teaspoonful of minced parsley. Pour around the fish and serve.
SALMON À LA WALDORF
Marinate salmon steaks for an hour in lemon-juice. Cover with stock, add pepper, salt and minced parsley to season, and simmer slowly until done. Drain, thicken the sauce, add a tablespoonful of butter, and serve separately.
SALMON MOUSSE
Rub half a pound of raw salmon to a smooth paste with water, adding gradually a dozen chopped raw oysters, half a cupful of Tomato Sauce and the yolks of three eggs. When smooth, fold in the stiffly beaten whites, season with salt and pepper, and press through a purée sieve into small buttered moulds. Put into a baking-pan, surround with hot water, and bake for fifteen or twenty minutes in a moderate oven. Unmould and serve with any preferred sauce.
SALMON MOUSSE À LA MARTINOT
Pound to a pulp with a little water, half a pound of raw salmon, and add the well-beaten whites of two eggs. Cook together one tablespoonful each of butter and flour, add a cupful of milk, and cook until thick, stirring constantly. Season with salt, red and white pepper, grated onion, and mushroom essence. Take from the fire, and add the yolks of three eggs beaten smooth with two tablespoonfuls of cream. Cool the sauce, and when cold mix it with the fish. Fold in carefully one cupful of whipped cream and fill a buttered mould with the fish. Put the mould in a pan of hot water and bake in a moderate oven for half an hour.
For the sauce, cook together for ten minutes a tablespoonful each of butter and flour, a teaspoonful each of chopped onion, salt, and sugar, and half a can of tomatoes. Rub through a sieve, and add the yolks of four eggs beaten smooth with a tablespoonful of cream and a grating of nutmeg. Take from the fire and add two tablespoonfuls of butter in small bits. Return to the fire, and add a little lemon-juice or tarragon vinegar. Strain, and add a little whipped cream.
SALMON STEAKS WITH CLARET SAUCE
Put four steaks into a buttered saucepan with salt, pepper, and grated nutmeg to season, add a bunch of parsley, a teaspoonful of mixed sweet herbs, a chopped onion, and two cupfuls of Claret. Cover with a buttered paper, simmer until done, and drain. Strain the sauce, thicken with flour cooked brown in butter, skim, add two tablespoonfuls of butter and the juice of a lemon; pour over the fish and serve.
SALMON MAYONNAISE WITH CUCUMBERS
Steam salmon steaks until tender, remove the skin, and cool. Cover with thinly sliced cucumbers, mask with Mayonnaise, and serve with a border of lettuce leaves and sliced hard-boiled eggs.
CREAMED SALMON ON TOAST
Reheat a cupful of cold flaked salmon, either fresh or canned, in Cream Sauce. Take from the fire, add one egg beaten smooth with half a cupful of cream, pour over buttered toast, and serve.
CURRIED SALMON
Chop a Spanish onion, fry it in butter, and add a tablespoonful of curry powder mixed with a teaspoonful of flour. Add two cupfuls of stock and cook until thick, stirring constantly. Add cold cooked salmon, cut into small pieces, and reheat. Serve in a border of boiled rice.
CHARTREUSE OF SALMON
Wash a cupful of rice in several waters, drain and parboil for five minutes in salted water at a galloping boil. Drain in a colander, return to the saucepan, add a pinch of salt and three cupfuls of milk or stock. Steam until tender, then add three tablespoonfuls of butter melted and mixed with one tablespoonful of curry powder and two tablespoonfuls of lemon-juice. Mix thoroughly and line a two-quart buttered mould with the rice. Fill the center with flaked cooked salmon, seasoned with salt, pepper and lemon-juice, cover with rice, steam for half an hour and serve with Egg Sauce.
FRICASSEE OF SALMON
Cut two pounds of salmon steaks into strips. Put into a saucepan with half a cupful of water, salt and pepper to season, a clove, a blade of mace, a tablespoonful of sugar, a chopped onion, and a heaping teaspoonful of mustard mixed with half a cupful of vinegar. Bring to the boil, add six tomatoes peeled and sliced, a teaspoonful of minced parsley, and a wineglassful of Sherry. Simmer for forty-five minutes and serve either hot or cold.
SALMON WITH EGGS
Steam salmon steaks until tender, cool, and lay upon a platter covered with lettuce leaves. Season with salt, pepper, and lemon-juice and surround with slices of hard-boiled eggs. Mix together a tablespoonful of melted butter, a teaspoonful of made mustard, and salt and pepper to season. Spread over the egg slices and serve.
JELLIED SALMON—I
Simmer salmon steaks in court-bouillon until done. Drain and arrange on a platter. Spread with Mayonnaise, tinted green with spinach juice to which a little dissolved gelatine has been added. Serve cold.
JELLIED SALMON—II
Mix two cupfuls of cold boiled salmon with one tablespoonful of lemon-juice, one teaspoonful of minced parsley, two drops of tabasco sauce and one tablespoonful of granulated gelatine dissolved in cold water. Add it to half a cupful of cooked salad dressing. Wet in cold water one large mould or several small ones, fill with the salmon and put on ice until thoroughly chilled. Serve with sliced cucumbers and Tartar Sauce.
SALMON PIE
Butter a baking-dish and line the sides with a rich biscuit crust. Fill the pan with fresh or canned salmon, seasoned with salt and pepper, lemon-juice, a pinch of mace, and a teaspoonful of onion juice. Spread over the salmon a cupful of boiled lobster which has been seasoned with melted butter and Worcestershire Sauce. Cover with biscuit crust, slit diagonally down the centre, and bake for an hour in a moderate oven.
COLD SALMON PATTIES
Season chopped salmon highly with salt and pepper, grated nutmeg and melted butter. Add the beaten yolk of an egg to bind. Line patty-tins with puff paste or rich pastry, fill with the salmon mixture, cover with the paste, and bake.
PICKLED SALMON—I
Boil large fresh pieces of salmon in salted and acidulated water to cover. Bring to the boil one quart of vinegar, six blades of mace, half a dozen white peppers, half a dozen cloves, a teaspoonful of made mustard, two tablespoonfuls of sugar, and a cupful of water in which the fish was boiled. Let the fish cool in the water, then put it in an earthen jar, pour the boiling liquid over, and let stand for a day or two before using.
PICKLED SALMON—II
Cut the fish into large pieces and cook until done in salted and acidulated water. Drain, cool, and skin. Put into a preserving-kettle two quarts of vinegar, one cupful of boiling water, four blades of mace, two tablespoonfuls of sugar, a dozen cloves, two tablespoonfuls of mustard seed, an onion sliced, a dozen pepper-corns, one small red pepper, two bay-leaves, and a teaspoonful of celery seed. Bring to the boil, put in the fish, boil up once and cool. Let stand for two or three days before using.
PICKLED SALMON—III
Boil large pieces of salmon in salted and acidulated water, drain, and cool. Add one quart of the water in which the fish was cooked, two quarts of vinegar, a tablespoonful of pepper-corns, grated nutmeg and a dozen blades of mace. Boil for half an hour and cool. Pour over the salmon, add a tablespoonful of olive-oil, cover, and keep in a cool place for two or three days before using.
SPICED SALMON
Mix half a cupful of vinegar, the juice of half a lemon, two cloves, a bay-leaf, an inch of stick cinnamon, a teaspoonful of salt and a pinch of black pepper. Bring to the boil and pour over salmon steaks which have been boiled, drained, and cooled. Let stand for two or three hours before serving.
SALMON SOUFFLÉ
Cook together one tablespoonful each of butter and flour, add one cupful of milk, and cook until thick, stirring constantly. Add half a cupful of stale bread crumbs, a teaspoonful of grated onion, a tablespoonful of Worcestershire Sauce, a teaspoonful of minced parsley, and the yolks of three eggs, well-beaten. Add one cupful of flaked salmon, mix thoroughly, and fold in the salmon, and bake in a pan of hot water in a moderate oven for forty-five minutes. Serve with any preferred sauce.
SALMON ON TOAST
Reheat two cupfuls of cold salmon steaks in a cupful of Drawn-Butter Sauce, seasoning with salt and red pepper. Take from the fire and add one egg beaten light with three tablespoonfuls of cream. Pour over slices of fried bread, sprinkle with minced parsley, and serve.
SALMON TIMBALES
Flake a pound of cooked salmon and rub to a paste. Season with salt, pepper, and grated onion, add a tablespoonful of chopped almonds and the unbeaten whites of three eggs. Mix thoroughly and stir in one cupful of cream whipped solid. Put into small buttered moulds, set into boiling water, and bake for twenty minutes. Turn out and serve with Hollandaise Sauce.
SALMON TURBOT—I
Cook together two tablespoonfuls of butter and three of flour. Add two cupfuls of milk and cook until thick, stirring constantly. Take from the fire, add two eggs, well beaten, a teaspoonful of minced parsley and the juice of half a lemon. Put into a baking-pan alternate layers of the sauce and cold flaked salmon, cover with crumbs, dot with butter, and brown in the oven.
SALMON TURBOT—II
Cook together one tablespoonful each of butter and flour, add two cupfuls of milk and cook until thick, stirring constantly. Take from the fire, add two tablespoonfuls of butter, and salt and pepper to season. Put a layer of flaked salmon into a buttered baking-dish, spread with the sauce, and repeat until the dish is full, having crumbs and butter on top. Bake for half an hour.
SALMON BOX
Line a square tin mould with hot boiled rice, fill the centre with cold boiled salmon flaked and seasoned with salt, pepper, and grated nutmeg. Cover with rice, steam for an hour, turn out on a platter, and serve with Egg Sauce.
SALMON WITH CUCUMBER SAUCE
Put a large cut of salmon into a buttered saucepan with salt, pepper, a bunch of parsley, a chopped onion, and sweet herbs. Add half a cupful of white wine and enough stock to cover. Simmer until the fish is done and drain carefully. Strain the liquid and thicken with flour cooked in butter. Peel and slice three small cucumbers, parboil in salted water, drain, and fry in butter with a little sugar. Add to the sauce with a tablespoonful of butter and the juice of a lemon. Pour over the fish and serve.
SALMON CROQUETTES—I
Cook together one tablespoonful of butter and two tablespoonfuls of flour, add one cupful of cream, and cook until thick, stirring constantly. Take from the fire, add one egg well beaten, and one pound of cold cooked salmon flaked. Let cool, shape into croquettes, dip into egg and crumbs, and fry in deep fat. Serve with any preferred sauce.
SALMON CROQUETTES—II
Cook together one tablespoonful of butter and three tablespoonfuls of flour. Add one cupful of cream, and cook until thick, stirring constantly. Season with salt, red pepper, and minced parsley, take from the fire, add the juice of a lemon and a can of flaked salmon. Mix thoroughly and cool. Shape into croquettes, dip in egg and crumbs, and fry in deep fat.
SALMON CROQUETTES—III
Cook together one tablespoonful of flour and two of butter, add a cupful of cream or milk, and cook until thick, stirring constantly. Take from the fire, add an egg well beaten, half a cupful of crumbs, a small can of flaked salmon, and salt, red pepper, and powdered mace to season. Mix thoroughly, cool, shape into croquettes, dip into egg and crumbs, and fry in deep fat.
SALMON CROQUETTES—IV
Cook together two tablespoonfuls each of butter and flour and add one cupful of cream in which the yolks of two eggs have been beaten. Cook until very thick, stirring constantly. Take from the fire, add a pound can of salmon, flaked, salt and pepper to season, and a teaspoonful of minced parsley. Stir in the beaten whites of the eggs and cool. Shape into croquettes, dip in egg and crumbs, fry in deep fat, and serve with Tomato Sauce.
SALMON CROQUETTES—V
Cook together two tablespoonfuls of butter and one of flour. Add one cupful of milk and cook until thick, stirring constantly. Add a small can of flaked salmon, pepper and salt to season, and three eggs well beaten. Reheat, but do not boil. When it thickens, take from the fire, and cool. When cold, shape into croquettes, dip in egg and crumbs, and fry in deep fat.
SALMON CROQUETTES—VI
Cook together one tablespoonful of butter and two of flour. Add one cupful of milk and cook until very thick, stirring constantly. Season with salt, pepper, and celery salt. Add two cupfuls of canned salmon freed from skin, fat, and bone and chopped fine. Mix thoroughly and spread on a platter to cool. Shape into croquettes, dip in crumbs, then in beaten egg, then in crumbs, and fry in deep fat. Serve with green peas.
SWEDISH SALMON CROQUETTES
Cook one cupful of white stock with a tablespoonful of butter, the yolks of two eggs, and parsley, pepper and salt, and grated onion to season. Add a can of flaked salmon and cook until thick, stirring constantly. Cool, shape into croquettes, dip in egg and crumbs, and fry in deep fat. Serve with Tartar Sauce.
SALMON CUTLETS
Cook together one tablespoonful of butter and three of flour. Add one cupful of cream and cook until thick, stirring constantly. Add a can of salmon, chopped, the juice of half a lemon, a tablespoonful of minced parsley, and salt and red pepper to season. Mix thoroughly, and cool. Shape into cutlets, dip in egg and crumbs and fry in deep fat.
SALMON CHOPS
Prepare according to directions given for Salmon Croquettes, shape into chops, dip into egg and crumbs, fry in deep fat, and serve with Tartar Sauce.
BAKED SALMON LOAF—I
Put a cupful of milk into a double-boiler and add enough bread crumbs to make a smooth paste. Cook until thick, stirring constantly. Add a can of salmon, chopped, half a cupful of cream, salt and red pepper to season and three eggs beaten separately, folding in the stiffly beaten whites last. Mix thoroughly, pour into a buttered mould, set into a pan of hot water, and bake until firm in a moderate oven.
SALMON LOAF—II
Mash a can of salmon, add the juice of a lemon, and half a cupful of fresh bread-crumbs, three tablespoonfuls of minced parsley, four tablespoonfuls of melted butter and four eggs beaten separately, folding in the stiffly beaten whites last. Put into a buttered mould and steam for an hour. Add to the oil drained from the salmon one cupful of boiling milk, one tablespoonful of cornstarch rubbed smooth in a little cold milk, and a tablespoonful of butter. Cook until thick, stirring constantly, take from the fire, add one egg well beaten, a teaspoonful of tomato catsup and mace and pepper to season. Turn the mould out on a platter and pour the sauce around it.
SALMON LOAF—III
Flake a can of salmon and mix it with the pounded yolks of two hard-boiled eggs, a tablespoonful of capers, and pepper, salt, mace, and parsley to season. Dissolve a teaspoonful of anchovy paste in a cupful of boiling water, add a tablespoonful of lemon-juice and a tablespoonful of soaked gelatine. Heat until the gelatine is dissolved and mix with the fish. Butter a mould and arrange upon it the rings of the hard-boiled eggs. Put the fish into it and put on ice until perfectly cold and firm. Turn out on a platter and serve with Mayonnaise.
SALMON LOAF—IV
Drain the oil from a can of salmon, remove skin, fat, and bone, and flake the fish with a silver fork. Add the yolks of four eggs, well beaten, half a cupful of bread crumbs, four tablespoonfuls of melted butter, and pepper, salt, and minced parsley to season. Fold in the stiffly beaten whites of the eggs, put into a buttered pan, and bake for half an hour. Add to the drained oil one cupful of milk. Thicken it with a tablespoonful each of butter and flour cooked together, take from the fire, and add one egg well beaten.
FRICASSEED SALMON
Reheat a can of flaked salmon in a cupful of Drawn-Butter Sauce, adding half a cupful of cream, and salt, red and white pepper to season. Take from the fire, add one egg, well beaten, pour over buttered toast, and sprinkle with parsley.
CURRIED SALMON—I
Chop a small onion fine, and fry brown in butter. Add to it the liquor drained from a can of salmon, and a tablespoonful of flour. When the flour is smooth, add half a cupful of water, a teaspoonful each of curry powder and lemon-juice, and salt and pepper to taste. Add a can of salmon flaked, reheat, and serve.
CURRIED SALMON—II
Fry a chopped onion in olive-oil, and when the onion is brown add a tablespoonful of flour mixed with a teaspoonful of curry powder. Add one cupful of boiling water and cook until thick, stirring constantly. Reheat flaked canned salmon in the sauce and serve with a garnish of sliced lemon.
CURRIED SALMON—III
Fry a chopped onion brown in olive-oil, add two teaspoonfuls of curry powder and a tablespoonful of flour. When the flour is cooked, add two cupfuls of hot water and cook until thick, stirring constantly. Add a tablespoonful of tomato catsup or Chutney Sauce and salt and pepper to season. Add a can of salmon flaked. Reheat and serve.
CREAMED SALMON
Bring to the boil one cupful of cream and half a cupful of milk. Add a teaspoonful of butter and two teaspoonfuls of corn-starch rubbed smooth with a little cold milk. Cook until thick, stirring constantly, and add one can of flaked salmon. Fill ramekins with the mixture, sprinkle with crumbs, dot with butter, and brown in the oven.
CREAMED SALMON ON TOAST
Prepare the fish according to directions given for Baked Creamed Salmon. Pour over slices of buttered toast, sprinkle with minced parsley, and serve.
BAKED CREAMED SALMON
Cook together two tablespoonfuls of butter and two of flour, add two cupfuls of milk or cream, and cook until thick, stirring constantly. Add salt, pepper and minced parsley to season, and a can of flaked salmon. Reheat and arrange in a baking-dish with alternate layers of crumbs and butter, having crumbs and butter on top. Bake in the oven until brown.
SALMON PATTIES
Prepare Creamed Salmon according to directions given in the recipe for Baked Creamed Salmon. Fill patty-shells and serve.
ESCALLOPED SALMON—I
Prepare Creamed Salmon according to directions given for Baked Creamed Salmon. Put into a buttered baking-dish, cover with crumbs, dot with butter, and brown in the oven.
ESCALLOPED SALMON—II
Cook together two tablespoonfuls of butter and one of flour. Add a cupful of water, the juice of a lemon, a small onion chopped, the yolks of three boiled eggs mashed smooth, and pepper and salt to season. Cook until thick, stirring constantly. Add a can of flaked salmon, reheat, and serve.
COQUILLES OF SALMON
Prepare Creamed Salmon according to directions given in the recipe for Baked Creamed Salmon, seasoning with salt, pepper and lemon-juice. Put into buttered shells or individual dishes with alternate layers of cooked mushrooms. Sprinkle with crumbs and grated cheese, dot with butter and brown in the oven.
DEVILLED SALMON
Prepare Creamed Salmon according to directions given for Baked Creamed Salmon, adding half a cupful of Worcestershire Sauce and the juice of a lemon. Fill individual dishes or a large baking-dish, sprinkle with crumbs, dot with butter, and brown in the oven.
BANKED SALMON
Reheat a can of salmon in a Cream Sauce. Arrange on a platter and put around it a border of mashed potatoes. Sprinkle with crumbs, dot with butter, and brown in the oven.
PRESSED SALMON
Mix together two beaten eggs, a tablespoonful of butter, two cupfuls of bread crumbs, a can of salmon, flaked, and salt and pepper season, turn into a buttered mould, steam for half an hour, and serve cold with Mayonnaise or Tartar Sauce.
MOULDED SALMON
Free a pint can of salmon from fat, skin, and bone and flake the fish with a silver fork. Add salt and pepper to season, half a cupful of cracker crumbs, two tablespoonfuls of butter melted, and three eggs beaten separately, mix thoroughly, put into a buttered mould and steam for an hour. Serve with Drawn-Butter Sauce to which chopped olives and capers have been added.
SALMON IN GREEN PEPPERS
Prepare Creamed Salmon according to directions given for Baked Creamed Salmon. Cut slices from the tops of sweet green peppers, remove the seeds and fibre, fill with the prepared salmon, sprinkle with crumbs, dot with butter, put into a pan of hot water and bake for twenty or thirty minutes.
SALMON EN CASSEROLE
Chop a large onion and fry it in butter. Add a cupful of bread crumbs and one and one half cupfuls of milk. Bring to the boil, add salt and pepper to season, a flaked can of salmon, and two eggs well beaten. Pour into a buttered casserole, dot with butter, and bake brown. Sprinkle with minced parsley and serve.
BROILED SMOKED SALMON—I
Soak for twelve hours, changing the water three times. Drain, wipe dry, dip in olive-oil and vinegar, and broil. Serve with a garnish of lemon and parsley.
BROILED SMOKED SALMON—II
Cut into narrow strips, parboil for ten minutes, drain, cover with cold water, let stand for fifteen minutes, wipe dry, and broil. Season with red pepper and lemon-juice and serve with buttered toast.
BROILED SMOKED SALMON—III
Cut smoked salmon into strips and broil carefully. Pour over it melted butter and lemon-juice, sprinkle with minced parsley, and serve.
BROILED SMOKED SALMON—IV
Parboil slices of smoked salmon for twenty minutes, drain, cool, rub with flour, broil carefully, and serve with any preferred sauce.
BROILED SMOKED SALMON—V
Wash thoroughly and soak for a few hours very salt. Cover with warm water, simmer for fifteen or twenty minutes, drain, wipe dry, rub with butter, and broil.
BROILED SALMON À LA MAÎTRE D'HÔTEL
Soak the smoked salmon for an hour in cold water, then drain and wipe dry. Brush with melted butter and broil carefully. Serve with Maître d'Hôtel Sauce.
SMOKED SALMON
Cut it into thin slices, warm it up in a little olive-oil, strain the oil when it is warmed, add to it lemon-juice and minced parsley, pour over the fish, and serve.
BROILED KIPPERED SALMON
Cut the salmon into strips, wrap in buttered paper, and broil carefully over a clear fire. Remove the paper and serve.
FRIED KIPPERED SALMON
Soak slices of kippered salmon in olive-oil for several hours. Drain off the oil and fry the salmon slices in it. Serve with melted butter and lemon-juice.
BROILED SALT SALMON
Soak the fish for thirty-six hours in cold water, changing the water often. Drain, wipe dry, rub with melted butter, broil, and serve with Egg Sauce.
BOILED SALT SALMON
Soak the fish over night, drain, rinse, and simmer for fifteen or twenty minutes. Season with pepper and butter and garnish with parsley.
PICKLED SALT SALMON
Prepare according to directions given for Pickled Salmon, soaking the salt fish for twelve hours before cooking.
SALT SALMON IN PAPILLOTES
Cut the fish into strips, soak for an hour in cold water, drain, and dry. Season with pepper and wrap each piece in tough, well-buttered paper, twisting the ends. Broil carefully over clear coals, unwrap and serve with any preferred sauce. |
