Salmon Collar

The housekeeper's instructor; or, uni... · William Augustus Henderson · 1791
Source
The housekeeper's instructor; or, universal family cook
Time
Cook: 120 min Total: 120 min
Status
success · extracted 11 days ago
Not a recipe
No
Ingredients (24)
For the salmon
For the forcemeat
For the boiling liquor
For the pickle
Optional for storage
Instructions (14)
  1. Prepare the salmon: cut off the tail, wash the fleshy part well, and dry it with a cloth.
  2. Rub the salmon with egg yolks.
  3. Make forcemeat: use the tail end piece, salmon skin, parboiled oysters, lobster tails, hard-boiled egg yolks, anchovies, chopped sweet-herbs, salt, cloves, mace, nutmeg, pepper, and grated bread.
  4. Mix forcemeat ingredients well with egg yolks.
  5. Spread the forcemeat over the fleshy part of the salmon.
  6. Sprinkle pepper and salt over the forcemeat.
  7. Roll the salmon into a collar and bind it with broad tape.
  8. Prepare the boiling liquor: bring water, salt, and vinegar to a boil.
  9. Add a bunch of sweet-herbs, sliced ginger, and nutmeg to the boiling liquor.
  10. Gently boil the salmon collar in the liquor for about two hours.
  11. Remove the salmon from the liquor.
  12. Prepare the pickle: let the boiling liquor cool.
  13. Place the cooled pickle with the salmon and let it marinate until needed.
  14. Optional: Cover the salmon with clarified butter for longer storage.
Original Text
TAKE a side of salmon, cut off the tail, then wash the fleshy part well, and dry it with a cloth. Rub it over with the yolks of eggs, and make some forcemeat with what you cut off at the tail end. Take of the skin, and put to it some parboiled oysters, a tail or two of lobsters, the yolks of three or four eggs boiled hard, six anchovies, a handful of sweet-herbs chopped small, a little salt, cloves, mace, nutmeg, pepper, and grated bread. Work all these well together with yolks of eggs, lay it over the fleshy part, and strew on it a little pepper and salt. Then roll it up into a collar, and bind it with broad tape. Boil it in water, salt, and vinegar, but let the liquor boil before you put it in, and throw in a bunch of sweet-herbs, with some sliced ginger and nutmeg. Let it boil gently near two hours, and then take it up. Put it into a pan, and when the pickle is cold, put it to your salmon, and let it lay in it till wanted. If you cover it with clarified butter, it will keep a considerable time.
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