Boiled Salmon Pie

The Experienced English Housekeeper · Elizabeth Raffald · 1784
Source
The Experienced English Housekeeper
Time
Cook: 90 min Total: 90 min
Status
success · extracted 12 days ago
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Ingredients (8)
Instructions (11)
  1. Boil salmon as for eating.
  2. Take off the skin and all the bones.
  3. Pound the meat in a mortar very fine, with mace, nutmeg, pepper, and salt to your taste.
  4. Raise the pie and put flowers or leaves on the walls.
  5. Put the pounded salmon in the pie and lid it.
  6. Bake it for an hour and a half.
  7. When it comes out of the oven, take off the lid.
  8. Add four ounces of rich melted butter.
  9. Cut a lemon in slices and lay over the salmon.
  10. Stick in two or three leaves of fennel.
  11. Send it to table without a lid.
Original Text
BOIL your ſalmon as for eating, take off the ſkin, and all the bones out, and pound the meat in a mortar very fine, with mace, nutmeg, pepper, and ſalt to your taſte, raiſe the pie, and put flowers or leaves on the walls, put the ſalmon in, and lid it, bake it an hour and a half, when it comes out of the oven take off the lid, and put in four ounces of rich melted butter, cut a lemon in ſlices, and lay over it, ſtick in two or three leaves of fennel, and ſend it to table without a lid.
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