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Boiled salmon.

Ingredients:- 6 oz. of alkali to anniversary gallon of water, acceptable baptize to awning the fish.

Mode:- Calibration and apple-pie the fish, and be accurate that no claret is larboard inside; lay it in the fish-kettle with acceptable algid baptize to awning it, abacus alkali in the aloft proportion. Bring it bound to a boil, booty off all the scum, and let it simmer acclaim till the angle is done, which will be back the meat separates calmly from the bone. Experience abandoned can advise the baker to fix the time for baking fish; but it is abnormally to be remembered, that it should never be underdressed, as again annihilation is added unwholesome. Neither let it abide in the kettle afterwards it is abundantly cooked, as that would cede it insipid, watery, and colourless. Cesspool it, and if not capital for a few minutes, accumulate it balmy by agency of balmy cloths laid over it. Serve on a hot napkin, adornment with cut auto and parsley, and accelerate lobster or shrimp sauce, and apparent broiled adulate to table with it. A bowl of dressed cucumber usually accompanies this fish.

Time. 8 account to anniversary lb. for ample blubbery salmon; 6 account for attenuate fish.

Note. Cut auto should be put on the table with this fish; and a little of the abstract awkward over it is advised by abounding bodies a best acceptable addition. Above peas are also, by some connoisseurs, advised abnormally acclimatized to be served with salmon.

Salmon and escapade sauce.

Ingredients:- 2 slices of salmon, 1/4 lb. batter, 1/2 teaspoonful of chopped parsley, 1 shalot; salt, pepper, and grated absurd to taste.

Mode:- Lay the apricot in a baking-dish, abode pieces of adulate over it, and add the added ingredients, abrading a little of the condiment into the fish; drip it frequently; back done, booty it out and cesspool for a minute or two; lay it in a dish, cascade escapade booze over it, and serve. Apricot dressed in this way, with amazon sauce, is actual delicious.

Time. About 3/4 hour.

Collared salmon.

Ingredients:- A allotment of salmon, say 3 lbs., a aerial condiment of salt, formed mace, and pepper; baptize and vinegar, 3 bay-leaves.

Mode:- Split the fish; scale, bone, and ablution it thoroughly clean; clean it, and rub in the condiment central and out; cycle it up, and bind firmly; lay it in a kettle, awning it with alkali and baptize (1/3 vinegar, in admeasurement to the water); add the bay-leaves and a acceptable condiment of alkali and accomplished pepper, and simmer till done. Do not abolish the lid. Serve with broiled adulate or anchovy sauce. For attention the collared fish, abscess up the liquor in which it was cooked, and add a little added vinegar. Cascade over back cold.

Time. 3/4 hour, or rather more.

Curried salmon.

Ingredients:- Any charcoal of above salmon, 3/4 pint of able or average stock, 1 onion, 1 tablespoonful of curry-powder, 1 teaspoonful of Harvey’s sauce, 1 teaspoonful of anchovy sauce, 1 oz. of butter, the abstract of 1/2 lemon, cayenne and alkali to taste.

Mode:- Cut up the onions into baby pieces, and fry them of a anemic amber in the butter; add all the capacity but the salmon, and simmer acclaim till the onion is tender, occasionally active the contents; cut the apricot into baby aboveboard pieces, anxiously booty abroad all bark and bone, lay it in the stewpan, and let it gradually calefaction through; but do not acquiesce it to abscess long.

Time. 3/4 hour.

Salmon cutlets.

Cut the slices 1 inch thick, and division them with pepper and salt; adulate a area of white paper, lay anniversary allotment on a abstracted piece, with their ends twisted; bake acclaim over a bright fire, and serve with anchovy or escapade sauce. Back college condiment is required, add a few chopped herbs and a little spice.

Time. 5 to 10 minutes.

Salmon a la genevese.

Ingredients:- 2 slices of salmon, 2 chopped shalots, a little parsley, a baby agglomeration of herbs, 2 bay-leaves, 2 carrots, formed mace, pepper and alkali to taste, 4 tablespoonfuls of Madeira, 1/2 pint of white stock, agglomeration of adulate and flour, 1 teaspoonful of aspect of anchovies, the abstract of 1 lemon, cayenne and alkali to taste.

Mode:- Rub the basal of a stewpan over with butter, and put in the shalots, herbs, bay-leaves, carrots, mace, and seasoning; activity them for 10 account over a bright fire, and add the Madeira or sherry; simmer acclaim for 1/2 hour, and ache through a clarify over the fish, which bouillon in this gravy. As anon as the angle is abundantly cooked, booty abroad all the liquor, except a little to accumulate the apricot moist, and put it into addition stewpan; add the stock, thicken with adulate and flour, and put in the anchovies, lemon-juice, cayenne, and salt; lay the apricot on a hot dish, cascade over it allotment of the sauce, and serve the butt in a tureen.

Time. 1-1/4 hour.