FISH IN OTHER COUNTRIES

New Zealand Listener, Volume 21, Issue 525, 15 July 1949, Page 22

FISH IN OTHER COUNTRIES

nations’ food, with the idea of cultivating amiability through eating together, we come this week to Fish Dishes. If some of the fish are not to be had here, try the recipe with the most likely material available. Far East-Devilled Lobster Try this with crayfish and for soy satice use a good meat extract mixed with a dittle boiling water. Cut crayfish tails in slices of uniform size. On a plate mix 2 tablespoons chopped chutney, 2 chopped pickled gherkins, a little soy sauce, cayenne and salt and cover each piece of lobster with it. Heat 2ozs. butter in frying-pan, put in pieces of crayfish and make them thoroughly hot. Have ready croutons of fried bread, hot and crisp. On each put a piece of crayfish and serve very hot, China-Chow Yu P’Au Remove skin and bone from fish steak and cut it into thin 2-inch pieces. In a little hot oil fry 40z. pork, cut thin, a piece of finely chopped ginger and .3 onions, skinned and cut in quarters. When these are nearly cooked put in fish, 2 chopped green peppers, 4oz. chopped mushrooms and a little water. Season with pepper and soy sauce, then cook until fish is done. Thitken gravy with cornflour. Egypt-Baked Fish Cut off heads and tails of small fish or use slices of large fish. Slice onions. In «a well-buttered fireproof dish arrange fish and sliced onions alternately in rows; add salt and pepper, cover with thin slices of tomato: and lemon, pour over tomato sauce and bake, Serve hot or cold with lemon. r U.S.A.-Lobster Newburg Crayfish is excellent cooked this way, and so afe oysters. Two tablespoons butter, 1 glass sherry, 1 tablespoon flour, salt and pepper, 1 cup or more milk, a little cream, 2 egg yolks, Bi teaspoon lemon juice. Melt butter, stir in flour, and when cooked add milk, stirring till very smooth and creamy, Pour in well-beaten yolks, a little more milk or cream if necessary, lemon juice and sherry. Blend thoroughly, add the cut’ up crayfish, The "coral" and fat our study of other ‘should have been well rubbed into the sauce. Heat through, but do not. boil crayfish. If using scallops and oysters they must be simmered a little. Scandanavia-Fish Pudding A good-sized terakihi or schnapper ‘would, be suitable. Scrape all fish from ‘the bones and skin with sharp knife. Put this raw fish pulp into large basin, add 2 beaten eggs and work them into pulp with a wooden spoon. Now add about a pint of milk in small quantities, stirring vigorously all the time. When milk is absorbed add a tablespoon of arrowroot smoothed out in a little of the milk, some grated nutmeg and pepper and salt to taste. Fill a buttered bowl! three parts full with this mixture,

cover with butter-paper and steam for 1% hours, Or drop the mixture by spoonfuls into hot butter and fry, Scotland-Kromeskies These are made with fish roes and are very noufishing. Simmer the roes 10 minutes in salted water with a dash of vinegar, Then cut them into suitable slices, and wrap a rasher of bacon around each piece, fastening with a skewer. Dip into batter and fry in boiling fat. Remove skewer, and serve on slices of fried bread. South Africa-Rissoles This is a tasty old Cape recipe. Mince Illb. fish very fine. Soak 1 thick slice of bread, squeeze dry, and add to the fish. Also add 2) beaten eggs, 1 chopped onion fried in butter, a little chopped parsley, grating of nutmeg, small pinch of cayenne and a little salt. Shape; roll in fine breadcrumbs or pounded dry biscuit, then in egg and in crumbs again. Fry in lard, Serve hot with a little mélted. butter and tomato sauce, Greece-Plaki Fillets of bream, grey mullet, or salt fish are used in Greece, Use any of our fish. Cut into pieces about 3 inches long. Fry together in olive oil 2 or 3 onions sliced finé, and 2 \or 3 little pieces of garlic, then add some sliced tomatoes or tomato puree, salt, pepper and finely chopped parsley, and fry these. Put fish into a fireproof dish, pour over the prepared sauce, add a little water and a little more olive oil and bake in oven.