534. Salmon Curry

The Modern Housewife · Soyer, Alexis · 1849
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The Modern Housewife
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Not a recipe
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Ingredients (10)
for leftovers
alternative fish
Instructions (12)
  1. Have two slices of salmon, weighing about a pound each, which cut into pieces of the size of walnuts.
  2. Cut up two middling-sized onions.
  3. Put the onions into a stewpan with an ounce of butter and a clove of garlic cut in thin slices.
  4. Stir over the fire until becoming rather yellowish.
  5. Add a tablespoonful of curry powder and half that quantity of curry paste.
  6. Mix all well together with a pint of good broth.
  7. Put in the salmon, which stew about half an hour.
  8. Pour off as much of the oil as possible.
  9. If too dry, moisten with a little more broth, mixing it gently, and serve as before.
Salmon curry with leftovers
  1. Reduce the curry sauce until rather thick before putting in the salmon.
  2. The salmon only requires to be made hot in it.
Alternative fish
  1. The remains of a turbot might also be curried in the same way, and also any kind of fish.
Original Text
534. Salmon Curry.—Have two slices of salmon, weighing about a pound each, which cut into pieces of the size of walnuts, cut up two middling-sized onions, which put into a stewpan, with an ounce of butter and a clove of garlic cut in thin slices, stir over the fire until becoming rather yellowish; then add a tablespoonful of curry powder and half that quantity of curry paste, mix all well together with a pint of good broth, put in the salmon, which stew about half an hour, pour off as much of the oil as possible; if too dry, moisten with a little more broth, mixing it gently, and serve as before. Salmon curry may also be made with the remains left from a previous dinner, in which case reduce the curry sauce until rather thick before putting in the salmon, which only requires to be made hot in it. The remains of a turbot might also be curried in the same way, and also any kind of fish.
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