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FRIED    SHAD
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FRIED SHAD

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Estimated Nutrition (whole recipe, rough)

911
Calories
60g
Protein
28g
Fat
96g
Carbs
What these numbers assume — 5 portions →
Ingredient Portion assumed kcal
Flour 1 cup (125g) all-purpose 455
Pork 100g cooked 242
Salmon 100g cooked 208
Black Pepper 1 tsp ground (2.3g) 6
Salt 1 tsp (6g) 0

Totals for the whole recipe, adding one typical portion per ingredient — listed above. Quantities in the recipe are not counted, so this is a rough guide only — not suitable for medical or dietary planning.

Ingredients

  • one pound salt pork
  • four pounds of cod
  • one tablespoon of flour
  • four pieces
  • 61 chowder
  • salt
  • pepper

Directions

1

Clean, wash and wipe a fine roe-shad. Split it open, cut each side into four pieces, leaving the head off, also the fins and tail. Sprinkle with salt and pepper and dredge with flour. Have ready a frying-pan of boiling hot lard or drip- pings ; put in the fish and fry it brown, turning it over in five minutes to cook the other side. Fry the roe in the same way. Lay the fish in the centre of the dish and the roe around it. Garnish with lemon, parsley or watercresses. Eat with catsup.

2

FISH AND SHELLFISH. 61

3

Take one pound salt pork, cut it into strips, and soak it in hot water five minutes. Put a layer of this in the bottom of a pot. Cut four pounds of cod or sea bass into pieces two inches square, and lay enough of these on the pork to cover it. Follow with a layer of chopped onions, summer savory and pepper, either black or cayenne. Then a layer of split Boston, Butter, or whole Cream crackers which have been soaked in water till moist through, but not ready to break. Above this put another layer of pork, and so on as before till all the materials are used. Let the upper layer Ipe buttered crackers well soaked. Pour in barely enough cold water to cover all. Cover the pot, stew gently for an hour, watching that the water does not sink below the upper layer; if it does, replenish cautiously from the boiling water in the tea-kettle. When the chowder is thoroughly done, take it out with a perforated skimmer and put it into a tureen. Thicken the gravy with one tablespoon of flour and one of butter. Boil it up and pour it over the chowder. Send sliced lemon, pickle and stewed tomatoes to the table with it, as some prefer these added to the chowder.

By Gibson, Marietta Fauntleroy Hollyday, "Mrs. C. H. Gibson." · Recipe sourced from internet_archive

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