--THE CHINA MAIL, MARCH 23,-1939.
Fish Roes Produce Great
out breaking and put into little. paper cake cases, with chopped parsley, brown bread crumbs, salt, So far from fish roes being a ne- nursery and for the invalid or eld-
a little pepper, and dots of butter. glected food as was assumed, they orly people who require fare that the capital of Iceland, where ros Send to table with maitre d'hotel A favourite dish in Reykjavik, ful not to brown the paper cases, Make very hot in oven, but be care- would appear to constitute--cook- is easily digested. ed in a variety of ways a much
is eaton in large quantities, is a or a piquant sauce, as preferred. favoured dish in homes of every class.
Best known roes range from the soft and to a loss degree the hard roe of the democratic herring to the aristocratic caviar provided by the imposing sturgeon. Caviar figures chiefly in the luxurious cos- mopolitan restaurant menus, sor- ved icy cold with cut lemon, ca. yonne, brown bread and butter or wafer toast as hors d'oeuvres or in a variety of pastry or toast sav- ouries at the end of a meal.
A SOUFFLE Boil about 4lb of cod's roe, and and when cold pound well. Mix together
number, a few readers recommend pastry, fill with alternate layers of Mackerel roes are served in fair baked roe pie. Line a piedish with the roe of turbot, and some inter- roe and previously partly boiled esting methods of preparing carp's onions. Sprinkle with herbs roe have been received from read- pour on 4-pint milk. Grate cheese with a cupful of breadcrumbs, ers in country districts.
over thickly, and finally cover with teaspoonful of chopped parsley, It is in the immensely varied a deep layer of thinly sliced pota- salt and pepper, the finely grated. treatments of roes that this week's toes. Bake till potatoes are brown- rind and juice of a lemon. Add two
Choice Of Economical
Herring and their chief rival for competition entries have sprung a ed, and it will be found pastry and well-beaten yolks of eggs, and milk favour, cod's roes, are the basis of surprise. Roc cookery does not contents are cooked. Any roe can
many good and sustaining break- fast, luncheon and supper dishes and piquant fillings for sandwiches or "spreads" for toast. They are inexpensive and in a number of cases make suitable dishes for the
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end with the popular soft rose on toast or oven with sliced cod's roc, egged and bread-crumbed and fried to a golden brown.
Blanch a good cod's roe in wa- bouquet garni have been added. tor to which a little vinegar and a Put the roe into a saucepan with a large lump of butter, a few shell- ed, prawns, a handful of tiny but- ton onions, a bay leaf, and a table- spoonful of finely chopped pars- ley. Pour over sufficient fish stock to cover and simmer for 15 min- utes.
When cooked take the roe out of
,
be used:
to mix.
Whisk the whites of the eggs to a stiff froth and fold gent- ly into the mixture.
SAVOURY TARTLETS Line small patty pans with puff pastry, bake them lightly, take out cover, with greased paper, and Pour into a buttered mould, the paste in the middle and fill with steam for kucena loz. butter, the following mixture:
one hour. Melt in a and serve with parsley sauce.
Turn out
heuped teaspoonful flour, 1 table. stir in 1
ROE SAUSAGES spoonful good · stock and
One pound cooked cod roe, spoonful anchovy, essence: season teacupful milk (or cream), 11⁄2-tea- teacupful fine breadcrumbs,
one
half
two
Surprise Dishes
SANDWICH SPREAD
teaspoonful chopped one teaspoonful mixed
the saucepan, trim it and cut it with coralline Into neat picces, mix it with the then add the finely chopped yolks parsley,
pepper and salt; eggs, one prawns and place in a serving dish of 2 hard-boiled eggs and 6 her- herbs. Brown crumbs, lemon juice to keep warm.
Remove
ring roes. Put a teaspoonful saucepan from stove mixture in
of to taste, pepper, salt and paprika. and stir in quickly the well beaten quickly with beaten white of ogg, every trace of skin. Put in a ba- each tartlet, cover Flake roe well after removing yolks of two eggs and the juice of and return to the oven till lightly sin, add parsley and so on. મ small lemon. Season rather browned. Serve at once. highly and stir over a low flame
Beat until the sauce has thickened, but
in the eggs and milk. Mix all to- Poach 2lb herring roes in milk sages. Coat with
gether and shape into little. sau- on no account must it boil.
and water for 15 minutes.
milk. Roll well, and mash with a fork till rich brown in deep fat.
Drain brown crumbs. Fry the sausages a in
quite smooth, then add 1oz of soft- with potato crisps or chips. ened butter, salt and cayenne pep they can be served on hot buttered In making a useful selection of ful chopped capers or 2 teaspoon-
per to taste, and either 1 teaspoon- toast. recipes this week a certain number fuls chopped gherkins. Spread be- of representative dishes have been tween slices of brown bread included in addition to those that butter. are out of the ordinary run. applies particularly to mixtures to a delicacy, is economical, and when a pinch of mustard, cayenne, á drop
This sandwich filling, although parsley. be used as sandwich fillings or made will keep in a cool place for of lemon juice and a little whipped spreads and to souffles.
two or three days.
Pour this sauce over the roe and sprinkle with finely chopped fen- nel, or parsley. Serve with plainly bolled cauliflower.
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