Roast Sturgeon

The Book of Household Management · Beeton, Mrs. (Isabella Mary) · 1861

Source: The Book of Household Management
Time: Cook: 60 min Total: 60 min
Status: success · extracted 13 days ago
Not a recipe: No

Ingredients (6)

Veal stuffing ↝ Veal, ground, raw [Lamb, Veal, and Game Products]
buttered paper ↝ Rice paper [Crackers, excludes saltines]
the tail-end of a sturgeon ↝ Fish, sturgeon, mixed species, raw [Finfish and Shellfish Products]

For serving

good brown gravy ↝ Gravy, brown, dry [Soups, Sauces, and Gravies]
plain melted butter ↝ Butter, stick, unsalted [Dairy and Egg Products]

Alternative preparation

Dutch sauce

Instructions (9)

Cleanse the fish, bone and skin it.
Make a nice veal stuffing (see Forcemeats).
Fill the fish with the part where the bones came from.
Roll it in buttered paper.
Bind it up firmly with tape, like a fillet of veal.
Roast it in a Dutch oven before a clear fire.
Serve with good brown gravy, or plain melted butter.

Alternative preparation

Sturgeon may be plain-boiled, and served with Dutch sauce.
The fish is very firm, and requires long boiling.

Original Text

ROAST STURGEON.

333. INGREDIENTS.—Veal stuffing, buttered paper, the tail-end of a sturgeon.

Mode.—Cleanse the fish, bone and skin it; make a nice veal stuffing (see Forcemeats), and fill it with the part where the bones came from; roll it in buttered paper, bind it up firmly with tape, like a fillet of veal, and roast it in a Dutch oven before a clear fire. Serve with good brown gravy, or plain melted butter.

Time.—About 1 hour. Average cost, 1s. to 1s. 6d. per lb.

Seasonable from August to March.

Note.—Sturgeon may be plain-boiled, and served with Dutch sauce. The fish is very firm, and requires long boiling.

ESTIMATE OF THE STURGEON BY THE ANCIENTS.—By the ancients, the flesh of this fish was compared to the ambrosia of the immortals. The poet Martial passes a high eulogium upon it, and assigns it a place on the luxurious tables of the Palatine Mount. If we may credit a modern traveller in China, the people of that country generally entirely abstain from it, and the sovereign of the Celestial Empire confines it to his own kitchen, or dispenses it to only a few of his greatest favourites.

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