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Fish. Part 19 |
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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.
Bake in the oven 12 medium-sized potatoes. When cooked, make a horizontal incision on the flat side of each potato (so as to make a cover), and remove the interior. With one-third part of the potato removed, prepare a rich puree.
Cook 5 dozen oysters in their own juice, take off the scum and drain, add as much cream sauce as is necessary, bind it with 4 egg yolks, 2 ounces of butter and a good dash of sherry, and season to taste with salt and pepper.
Put some of the potato puree in each potato, lay on top 5 pieces of oysters, put the cover in its place, and heat well in the oven. Serve on a folded napkin.
Remove the hard part from 4 dozen small clams, put them in a saucepan with their own juice, and at the first boil remove from the fire and take off the scum. Then add a half-pint of cream and thicken lightly with a piece of butter kneaded with the same amount of flour. Season to taste and serve with dry toast separate.
Thoroughly clean some soft clam shells, and place in each the belly part of the clam, moisten with a few drops of white wine, and besprinkle with a mixture composed of I teaspoonful of freshly ground or crushed white pepper, I tablespoonful of freshly chopped parsley and I tablespoonful of chopped shallots, to which has been added 2 handfuls of fresh bread crumbs; lay on top of each clam a little bit of butter, put them in a roasting pan, and place in the oven to cook for 12 to 15 minutes. When serving press over them a little lemon juice. Note. - Oysters may be prepared in the same style.
Heat in a saute pan, 2 ounces of butter, add 3 dozen soft clams, and moisten with 2 gills of sherry; let cook for 10 minutes ; then add 2 gills of cream sauce; season to taste and finish with 2 ounces of butter.
Plunge 1/2 pint of picked and well-washed oyster crabs in boiling salted water for 2 minutes, drain well, and add to the clams just before serving.
Cook as above. Keep the sauce somewhat thinner, and bind with 3 raw egg yolks and I gill of cream.
Chop fine 2 green peppers and 2 shallots, which fry in butter without browning, then add 4 dozen soft clams (belly part) and moisten with a gill of sherry. Simmer gently for 10 minutes, add I pint of veloute cream or Bechamel sauce, cook 5 minutes longer; season with salt and red pepper, and incorporate 3 ounces of butter just before serving.
Chop fine 3 shallots and 12 medium-sized fresh mushrooms, fry lightly in butter, then add 36 soft clams, and moisten with 2 gills of sherry. Allow to reduce to half, then add 2 gills of brown sauce; season to taste; add some chopped fine herbs; incorporate 3 ounces of butter, and finish with the juice of half a lemon.
 
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