TURBOT WITH SPAWN SAUCE

High-class cookery made easy · Hart, J., Mrs. · 1880
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High-class cookery made easy
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Ingredients (8)
For the Spawn Sauce
Instructions (7)
  1. Get from the fishmonger’s about two ounces of fish spawn, and pound it in a mortar along with three ounces of butter.
  2. Rub the mixture through a sieve.
  3. Place it in a cold place to firm.
  4. Put the firm mixture in a stew-pan with the yolks of two eggs, a little pepper and salt, four tea-spoonfuls of lemon juice, half-a-cup of melted butter, and two tea-spoonfuls of anchovy.
  5. Pass the sauce through a tammie.
  6. Put the sauce into a clean pan and make it hot.
  7. Have your fish on a hot dish, then pour the sauce over it.
Original Text
TURBOT WITH SPAWN SAUCE. Cook your turbot as in first recipe; only, instead of cream sauce, use the following: Get from the fishmonger’s about two ounces of fish spawn, and pound it in a mortar along with three ounces of butter; rub through a sieve, place it in a cold place to firm, then put it in a stew-pan with the yolks of two eggs, a little pepper and salt, four tea-spoonfuls of lemon juice, half-a-cup of melted butter, and two tea-spoonfuls of anchovy. Pass it through a tammie, put into a clean pan and make it hot. Have your fish on a hot dish, then pour the sauce over it. [17]
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