Part 10

BROILED FISH, CUCUMBER SAUCE.

Serve a small piece of broiled halibut, salmon, or sword fish, with cucumber sauce.

Cucumber Sauce.--Pare one-half cucumber, grate and drain. Season with salt, pepper and vinegar.

BAKED FILLET OF HALIBUT, HOLLANDAISE SAUCE.

Wipe a small fillet of halibut and fasten with a skewer. Sprinkle with salt and pepper, place in pan, cover with buttered paper and bake twelve minutes. Serve with,

Hollandaise Sauce.--Put yolk of one egg, one tablespoon butter, and one teaspoon lemon juice in a small sauce-pan. Put sauce-pan in a larger one containing water, and stir mixture constantly with wooden spoon until butter is melted. Then add one-half tablespoon butter, and as the mixture thickens another one-half tablespoon butter; season with salt and cayenne. This sauce is almost thick enough to hold its shape. One-eighth teaspoon of beef extract, or one-third teaspoon grated horseradish added to the first mixture gives variety to this sauce.

BAKED HALIBUT WITH TOMATO SAUCE.

Wipe a small piece of halibut, and sprinkle with salt and pepper. Put in a buttered pan, cover with a thin strip of fat salt pork gashed several times, and bake twelve to fifteen minutes. Remove fish to serving dish, discarding pork. Cook eight minutes one-third cup of tomatoes, one-fourth slice onion, one clove, and a few grains salt and pepper. Remove onion and clove and run through a sieve. Add a few grains soda and cook until tomato is reduced to two teaspoons. Pour around fish and garnish with parsley.

HALIBUT WITH CHEESE.

Sprinkle a small fillet of halibut with salt and pepper, brush over with melted butter, place in pan and bake twelve minutes. Remove to serving dish and pour over it the following sauce:

Heat two tablespoons cream, add one-half egg yolk slightly beaten, and when well mixed one tablespoon grated cheese. Season with salt and paprika.

FINNAN HADDIE À LA DELMONICO.

Cover a small piece of finnan haddie with cold water, place on back of range and allow water to heat gradually to boiling point, then keep below boiling point for twenty minutes. Drain, rinse thoroughly, and separate into flakes; there should be two tablespoons. Reheat over hot water with one hard boiled egg thinly sliced in two tablespoons heavy cream. Season with salt and paprika, add one teaspoon butter and sprinkle with finely chopped parsley.

FILLET OF HADDOCK WITH WINE SAUCE.

Remove skin from a small piece of haddock, put in a buttered baking pan, pour over it one teaspoon melted butter, one tablespoon white wine, and a few drops, each, of lemon juice and onion juice. Cover and bake. Remove to serving dish, and to liquor in pan add one tablespoon cream and one egg yolk slightly beaten. Season with salt and pepper. Strain over fish, and sprinkle with finely chopped parsley.

SMELTS WITH CREAM SAUCE.

Clean two selected smelts and cut five diagonal gashes on sides of each. Season with salt, pepper, and lemon juice. Cover and let stand ten minutes. Roll in cream, dip in flour, and sauté in butter. Remove to serving dish, and to fat in pan add two tablespoons cream. Cook three minutes, season with salt, pepper, and a few drops lemon juice. Strain sauce around smelts and sprinkle with finely chopped parsley.

SMELTS À LA MAÎTRE D'HOTEL.

Prepare smelts same as for smelts with cream, and serve with maître d'hotel butter.

SALT CODFISH WITH CREAM.

Pick salt codfish into flakes; there should be two tablespoons. Cover with lukewarm water and let stand on back of range until soft. Drain, and add three tablespoons cream; as soon as cream is heated add yolk one small egg slightly beaten.

SALT CODFISH WITH CHEESE.

To salt codfish with cream, add one-half tablespoon grated cheese and a few grains paprika.

BROILED BEEFSTEAK, SAUCE FIGARO.

Serve a portion of broiled beefsteak with Sauce Figaro.

Sauce Figaro.--To Hollandaise sauce add one teaspoon tomato purée. To prepare tomato purée stew tomatoes, force through a strainer and cook until reduced to a thick pulp.

ROAST BEEF, HORSERADISH CREAM SAUCE.

Serve a slice of rare roast beef with Horseradish Cream Sauce.