Cut up an onion into rings, chop two beads of garlic and fry in two ounces of butter a nice brown. Add two tablespoons of tomato pulp, one tea-cup of water, twelve cloves, twelve peppercorns, and two bay-leaves. Let it simmer gently half an hour, then add the skate, and cook it in the sauce. Before serving, remove the tape and the bay leaves.
24. Baked Mackerel.
Get some fine mackerel, sprinkle it over with Nepaul pepper and salt, chopped onion, two bay-leaves, two beads of garlic chopped fine, then pour over all one cup of tomato pulp. Bake in the oven till the fish is done. Dish the fish very neatly, and strain the liquor over them.
25. Cod Steak.
Take some good sized pieces of cod, but not too large, roll them in flour and fry a nice colour. Then fry some onions as for beef steak, and smother the fish with them.
This is liked very much by children.
26. Curried Cutlets.
Free some cold haddock of bone and skin. Pound the flesh in a mortar. Mix with it one dessertspoon of chopped onion, two beads of chopped garlic, one teaspoon of best currie powder. Mix well. If not quite sufficiently firm to handle, stir in a well beaten egg. Form into cutlets, and fry in butter a nice colour. Serve with a separate dish of plain boiled rice or as a kedgree, as per recipe given.