Put the butter in a frying pan with the carrot, onion, parsley, salt, and pepper, and cook together until brown. Remove the onion, carrot, and parsley. Stir in the flour, brown it slightly, and then add the meat stock. Cook together until thickened. Just before removing from the fire, add the mushrooms, chopped into fine pieces, and the lemon juice. Allow it to heat thoroughly and then serve.
DRAWN-BUTTER SAUCE
- 1/4 c. butter
- 2 Tb. flour
- 1/2 tsp. salt
- 1/8 tsp. pepper
- 1-1/2 c. hot water
- 2 hard-cooked eggs
Melt the butter, and add the flour, salt, and pepper. Pour into this the hot water, and cook until the mixture thickens. Slice the eggs into 1/4-inch slices and add these to the sauce just before removing from the stove.
33. STUFFING FOR FISH.--As has been mentioned, fish that is to be baked is often stuffed before it is put into the oven. The stuffing not only helps to preserve the shape of the fish, but also provides a means of extending the flavor of the fish to a starchy food, for bread or cracker crumbs are used in the preparation of most stuffings. Three recipes for fish stuffing are here given, the first being made of bread crumbs and having hot water for the liquid, the second of cracker crumbs and having milk for the liquid, and the third of bread crumbs and having stewed tomato for the liquid.
FISH STUFFING No. 1
- 1/4 c. butter
- 1/2 c. hot water
- 1/2 tsp. salt
- 1/8 tsp. pepper
- 1 tsp. onion juice
- 1 Tb. chopped parsley
- 2 c. fine bread crumbs
Melt the butter in the hot water, add the salt, pepper, onion juice, and parsley, and pour over the crumbs. Mix thoroughly and use to stuff the fish.
FISH STUFFING No. 2
- 1/2 c. milk
- 2 c. cracker crumbs
- 1/2 tsp. salt
- 1/8 tsp. pepper
- 1/4 c. melted butter
- 1 Tb. chopped parsley
- 1 egg