Plaice, Stewed
INGREDIENTS for dish for 8 or 10 persons.-4 or 5 plaice, 2 onions, oz. of ground ginger, pint of lemon-juice, 1/4 pint of water, 4 eggs ; cayenne to taste. AVERAGE COST, 28.
Cut the fish into pieces about 2 inches wide, salt them, and let them remain for a quarter of an hour. Slice and fry the onions a light brown; put them in a stewpan, on the top of which put the fish without washing, and add the ginger, lemon-juice and water. Cook slowly for 1/2 hour, and do not let the fish boil, or it will break. Take it out, and when the liquor is cool, add 4 wellbeaten eggs; simmer till it thickens, when pour over the fish, and serve.
TIME. hour.
SEASONABLE from May to November.