Serve with melted butter, seasoned with salt, pepper,
grated nutmeg, and lemon-juice.
BOILED PIKE WITH CAPER SAUCE
Prepare and clean a fish, put into a fish-kettle, and simmer for
forty minutes in court-bouillon to cover. Serve with Caper Sauce.
BOILED PIKE WITH HORSERADISH SAUCE
Boil a large fish in salted and acidulated water with a bunch of
parsley. Cook together two tablespoonfuls each of butter and flour,
add three cupfuls of cream, and cook until thick, stirring constantly.
Season with salt and pepper, add two tablespoonfuls of butter and
three tablespoonfuls of freshly grated horseradish. Pour over the
fish, and serve.
BOILED PIKE WITH EGG SAUCE
Put the cleaned fish into a fish-kettle and
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cover with cold water. Add half a cupful of vinegar, a teaspoonful
each of cloves and pepper-corns, a bay-leaf, half a lemon sliced,
and a tablespoonful of salt. Boil until the fins pull off easily,
take up and skin the fish carefully. Pour over an Egg Sauce made
with a portion of the liquid in which the fish was cooked.
BOILED PIKE A LA DUBOIS
Prepare and clean the fish and cook it in equal parts of white
wine and water, adding minced carrots and celery, sweet herbs and
parsley, half a dozen pepper-corns, and salt to season.
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