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Fish. Part 18 |
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This section is from the book "The Post-Graduate Cookery Book", by Adolphe Meyer. Also available from Amazon: The Post-Graduate Cookery Book.
Remove the meat from 3 or 4 cooked lobsters and cut it into 1/2-inch. thick slices.
Heat some butter in a sautoir; season the lobster with salt and plenty of paprika, and put it to fry in the sautoir. After a few minutes, moisten with a glass of white wine, allow to reduce to half, and then add 1 pint of veloute cream sauce and I gill of thick cream; reduce to good consistency over a brisk fire, season highly and finish with a small lump of butter and the juice of half a lemon.
Have ready, cooked, with chicken broth, 2 quarts of rice, add 2 pounds of cooked lobster meat (cut in small squares) and I pint of cream sauce, season highly with salt, curry powder and chutney, and set in a tin pan to get cold; then shape into small croquettes (any desired shape). Dip them in beaten eggs and bread crumbs and fry in hot lard. Serve on a folded napkin, and give separate a sauceboatful of curry cream sauce.
Remove the shells and lungs of 6 soft-shell crabs; also cut the thin claws, leaving only the two principals.
Saute the crabs in butter, as indicated in a la Meuniere, with the addition of finely shredded green peppers thrown into the butter.
Note. - The green peppers for this purpose should be plunged in hot fat, so as to be able to remove the skin with a kitchen towel.
Chair de Crabes a la Maryland - Crab Meat, Maryland Style. Reduce to half I gill of sherry, add I pint of cream sauce and 2 gills of cream. Season with salt and red pepper, and incorporate 3 ounces of butter.
Add the crab meat, which should be nicely picked and in flakes; heat well without allowing to boil and serve immediately.
Heat I pint of Creole sauce, add 2 gills of cream sauce; season to taste, and finish with 3 ounces of butter; add the crab meat, heat without boiling, and serve.
Prepare as for Maryland Style. Finish the sauce with lobster butter and chopped eggs and sliced truffles.
Prepare the crab meat as explained before, for Maryland Style. Have ready picked some oyster crabs, plunge them in boiling water for I minute, then drain and add to the crab meat.
Prepare as explained for Maryland Style. Add some coarsely shredded green peppers and mushrooms sauted in butter.
Note. - The skin of the green peppers should be removed before being shredded.
Heat 3 ounces of butter in a saucepan, add 3 dozen oysters, I gill of well-picked oyster crabs and I dozen fresh mushrooms cut in squares; cook for a while, then add I stalk of braised celery cut in squares; heat well, season to taste with salt and cayenne, and finish with 4 ounces of sweet butter. Serve in chafing dish.
(This receipt was kindly furnished to me by Mr. Rene Anjard, chef at the Waldorf-Astoria, New York.)
 
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