Flounder a la Turque
From A calendar of dinners, with 615 recipes, 1922.
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Ingredients
Method
Wash, dry, and trim the flounder. Cut down the center on one side and raise the flesh from the bones.
Make a stuffing with Crisco, parsley, breadcrumbs, herbs, shrimps, lemon juice, seasonings, and most of the egg, and insert under the fillets, leaving the center open. Dot with Crisco.
Brush the fish with the remaining egg, sprinkle with browned breadcrumbs, place on a greased baking tin, and bake for 30 minutes at 350 degrees Fahrenheit.
To make the sauce: stir the egg yolk in a bowl, gradually add melted Crisco while stirring constantly, then add seasonings, vinegar, gherkins, and parsley.
Serve the fish with the sauce.
Original recipe, verbatim
Flounder a la Turque
For Fish For Sauce
1 large flounder }4 lemon
1 teaspoonful chopped parsley 1 egg
3 tablespoonfuls breadcrumbs }4 cupful melted Crisco
2 tablespoonfuls Crisco 1 yolk of egg
}4 teaspoonful powdered herbs }4 teaspoonful mustard
1 pinch powdered mace }4 teaspoonful salt
Salt, pepper, and red pepper 1 pinch red pepper
to taste 1 tablespoonful vinegar
}4 cupful picked shrimps 2 chopped gherkins
1 teaspoonful chopped parsley
For fish. Wash dry and trim flounder. On one side make cut down
center from near head to near tail and raise flesh from the bones. Make a
stuffing with Crisco, parsley, breadcrumbs, herbs, shrimps, lemon juice,
seasonings, and nearly all the egg, and insert under the fillets of the flounder,
leaving the center open. Dot with Crisco. Brush fish over with remaining
egg, sprinkle with browned breadcrumbs, put on Criscoed baking tin,
and bake thirty minutes. Serve with sauce.
For sauce. Put egg yolk into a bowl, and, with a wooden spoon stir a
little; then add by degrees melted Crisco, stirring constantly; then add
seasonings, vinegar, gherkins and parsley.
Transcribed as printed in A calendar of dinners, with 615 recipes, 1922. Spelling and punctuation are left as in the source scan.
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