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Fillet of Flounder Au Gratin

5 pounds flounder

I bay-leaf

2 tablespoons flour

2 cups chicken stock

3 tablespoons butter or other

1 tablespoon lemon-juice fat

1 slice onion

1 cup fine bread-crums

Salt and pepper

Fillet and cut the fish into pieces about four inches long by three wide. Oil a baking or gratin dish and lay the fillets in it. Sprinkle salt and pepper over them and set in a cool place till needed.

Rub together flour and fat; add onion, bay-leaf, chicken stock, and salt and pepper as needed. Simmer gently twenty minutes and then add lemon-juice, strain the sauce and pour it over the fish. Season lightly with salt and pepper, sprinkle bread-crums over the sauce and fish. Bake twenty minutes in a hot oven and serve at once in the same dish.