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Fillets of Sole à la Rouen

A historical recipe from How to Cook Fish, by Myrtle Reed.

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A historical recipe

How to Cook Fish, by Myrtle Reed. Project Gutenberg eBook #18542.

From an old book: a historical recipe, not current advice. Its methods, additives and storage may be unsafe by today's standards.

Ingredients 3 ingredients

  1. one tablespoonful each of butter
  2. one cupful of fish stock
  3. a cupful of cream

Cook safely

Keep children and pets away from the hob and the oven, and keep oven gloves and a lid within reach.

  • Oven and hot trays. Use dry oven gloves for trays and dishes: a hot tray looks just like a cold one. Open the oven door away from your face and let the first rush of heat out.

Method

  1. Put the prepared fillets into a buttered baking-pan and squeeze lemon-juice over them.
  2. Cover with buttered paper and bake.
  3. Cook together one tablespoonful each of butter and flour, add one cupful of fish stock and half a cupful of cream, and cook until thick, stirring constantly.
  4. Season with salt, paprika, and lemon-juice.
  5. Pour over the fish and serve.

Plating

Cookware for this recipe

  • Wooden spoon
Source Public domain in the USA
Credit

From How to Cook Fish, by Myrtle Reed. Digitised by Project Gutenberg, eBook #18542 (https://www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/18542). Public domain in the USA; its status may differ elsewhere.

What was changed: As printed, from the book's text; Project Gutenberg's header and licence removed. Ingredient lines were read out of the text by a program. A historical recipe, not current advice.