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Personal Chef Recipes - by Mrs Beeton
FILLETS OF MACKEREL.
| Ingredients: | 2 large mackerel
1 oz. butter
1 small bunch of
chopped herbs
3 tablespoonfuls of medium stock
No. 105
3
tablespoonfuls of bechamel (_see_ Sauces); salt
cayenne
and
lemon-juice to taste.
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| Method: | Clean the fish, and fillet it; scald the herbs, chop them fine,
and put them with the butter and stock into a stewpan. Lay in the
mackerel, and simmer very gently for 10 minutes; take them out, and put
them on a hot dish. Dredge in a little flour, add the other ingredients,
give one boil, and pour it over the mackerel.
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| Time: | 20 minutes. |
| Notes: | Fillets of mackerel may be covered with egg and bread crumbs,
and fried of a nice brown. Serve with _maitre d'hotel_ sauce and plain
melted butter.
THE VORACITY OF THE MACKEREL.--The voracity of this fish is very
great, and, from their immense numbers, they are bold in
attacking objects of which they might, otherwise, be expected to
have a wholesome dread. Pontoppidan relates an anecdote of a
sailor belonging to a ship lying in one of the harbours on the
coast of Norway, who, having gone into the sea to bathe, was
suddenly missed by his companions; in the course of a few
minutes, however, he was seen on the surface, with great numbers
of mackerel clinging to him by their mouths. His comrades
hastened in a boat to his assistance; but when they had struck
the fishes from him and got him up, they found he was so
severely bitten, that he shortly afterward expired.
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Source: The Book of Household Management Mrs. Isabella Mary Beeton |
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