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Matelote Au Vin Blanc

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France

Known as a French recipe, with similar versions prepared across other nations.

Ingredients 3 ingredients

  1. Crayfish
  2. one oz. of butter
  3. Onions

Cook safely

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

  • Hot oil. Never put water on an oil fire: turn off the heat and cover the pan with a lid or a damp tea towel. Pat food dry before it goes into hot oil, and lower it in gently, away from you.

Method

  1. Prepare the fish as above, but use red wine instead of white, and burn the brandy as before.
  2. When the pieces of fish are cooked, transfer them to another saucepan with small onions, previously cooked in butter, and small, cooked mushrooms.
  3. Strain the cooking-liquor, reduce it to a little less than half, thicken it with fish velout^, and finish with one oz.
  4. of butter.
  5. Pour this sauce over the fish and the garnish ;
  6. dish the whole in a timbale or a deep dish, and surround with crayfish, cooked in court-botiillon, and little crusts in the shape of hearts, fried in butter.

Plating

Cookware for this recipe

  • Frying pan
  • Saucepan
  • Baking dish
  • Sieve
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Credit

From A guide to modern cookery (1907), printed page 349, digitised by the Internet Archive: https://archive.org/details/cu31924000610117

What was changed: Read by machine from the book's scanned text into ingredients and method. The title's capitals were tidied; spelling and scanning errors are left as they are.