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Curried Fish

A historical recipe from My Pet Recipes, Tried and True Contributed by the Ladies and Friends of St. Andrew's Church, Quebec, by Various.

A historical recipe

My Pet Recipes, Tried and True Contributed by the Ladies and Friends of St. Andrew's Church, Quebec, by Various. Project Gutenberg eBook #21826.

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From My Pet Recipes, Tried and True Contributed by the Ladies and Friends of St. Andrew's Church, Quebec, by Various. Digitised by Project Gutenberg, eBook #21826 (https://www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/21826). Public domain in the USA; its status may differ elsewhere.

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Ingredients

Method

  1. MRS.
  2. W.
  3. COOK.
  4. One pound cooked white fish, one apple, two ounces of butter, one onion, one pint of fish stock, one tablespoon curry-powder, one tablespoon flour, one teaspoon lemon juice or vinegar, salt and pepper, six ounces of rice.
  5. Slice the apple and onion, and brown them in a pan with a little butter, stir in them the flour and curry powder, add the stock by degrees;
  6. skim when boiling and simmer slowly one half hour, stir in them the lemon juice, also a very small teaspoon sugar;
  7. strain and return to the saucepan, cut up the fish into neat pieces, and put them into the saucepan also, when quite hot dish with a border of rice.