Fish Pudding
From A calendar of dinners, with 615 recipes, 1922.
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Ingredients
Method
Boil fish, shred into small pieces, and remove skin and bones.
Blend 1 tablespoon Crisco and 1 tablespoon flour in a saucepan, add milk, and bring to a boil. Remove from fire, stir in well-beaten eggs, seasonings, onion juice, and Worcestershire sauce, and mix well.
Turn into a greased fireproof dish, cover with greased paper, set in a pan of warm water, and bake in a moderate oven (350 degrees Fahrenheit) for 30 minutes.
To make the sauce: blend 3 tablespoons Crisco and 3 tablespoons flour in a pan, add vegetables, mace, bay leaf, peppers, parsley, and milk, and simmer for 30 minutes.
Strain, return to pan, add salt, heat, stir in thick cream, and serve with the pudding.
Original recipe, verbatim
Fish Pudding
(KaU B. Vaughn)
For Pudding For Sauce
2 lbs. cooked fish 3 tablespoonfuls flour
1 cupful milk 3 tablespoonfuls Crisco
1 tablespoonful flour 1 slice carrot
1 tablespoonful Crisco 1 slice onion
2 eggs 1 slice celery
Salt and pepper to taste 1 blade of mace
% teaspoonful onion juice 1 bay leaf
1 tablespoonful Worcester- 6 whole peppers
shire sauce 1 sprig of parsley
Cream sauce }i teaspoonful salt
1 cupful thick cream
For pudding. Boil fish in boiling salted water till done. Shred or break
in small pieces, and free from skin and bone. Blend Crisco and flour in a
saucepan over fire, add milk and stir till boiling, remove from fire, add eggs
well beaten, seasonings, and mix well. Turn into Criscoed fireproof dish,
cover with greased paper, set in warm water, and bake in moderate oven
for thirty minutes. Serve with the sauce, potato balls, and chopped
parsley.
For sauce. Blend Crisco and flour in a pan over fire, add vegetables,
mace, bay leaf, peppers, parsley, milk, and simmer for thirty minutes.
Strain, return to pan, add salt, allow to heat, then add cream and it is
ready to serve.
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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