The Cook Book of Left-Overs

What to do with left-over everything, 1911 — beef to cake, four hundred ways to use what the last meal left behind.

Left-Over Fish

41 recipes in this part of The Cook Book of Left-Overs.

What to Do with Left-Over Fish

Fish, like meat, is particularly attractive to flies, therefore any cooked remnants should be carefully screened while cooling, and never…

Boiled Fish in Potato Border

2 cups cooked fish, hard cooked eggs flaked 2 cups hot or cold mashed potato cup drawn butter sauce (see page 70) I tablespoonful minced…

Spiced Fish with White Sauce

Season highly any left-over boiled white fish with one of the following, or a combination: tomato catsup, anchovy, Worcestershire, and a…

Clam Broth

When frying or making a scallop of soft clams it is unwise to put in the long, hard neck portions, for they are not eaten. Use these for…

Fish Cocktail

Take a small piece of cold boiled halibut, remove the skin and bones and flake it. Season it with salt and a little pepper. Make a cocktail…

Cold Fish with Cold Hollandaise Sauce

Arrange slices of any cold boiled fish on a platter, Cover them with slices of hard-cooked eggs which have been seasoned with salt and…

Creamed Fish

Make as much white sauce No. 2 (see page 68) as there is flaked fish, and add a slight grating of nutmeg. Season the fish well with salt…

Fish with Creamed Oysters

A little left-over boiled fish and a few creamed oysters arranged in ramekins with any white or drawn butter sauce (see pages 67-70)…

Baked Chowder

3 raw potatoes, sliced I½ cups boiled fish very thin I 1½ cups boiled fish 3 slices of cooked 2 small onions, sliced thin bacon and bacon…

Mock Lobster in Chafing-dish

1½ cups boiled fish, preferably salmon I cup stewed tomatoes well seasoned 2 tablespoonfuls cracker crumbs I tablespoonful butter Salt…

Boston Scalloped Fish

2½ cups cold flaked haddock or halibut 1½ cups white sauce I cup cracker-crumbs, buttered teaspoonful pepper teaspoonful salt No. I (see…

Baked Fish in Pepper Cases

Carefully remove the skin and bones from any baked fish and season it with salt, pepper, and a 1 little onion juice. Mix with it an equal…

Fish Loaf

Flake the remnants of any baked fish. There should be two cups; if not, fill out with raw oysters. Add one cup of stuffing left from the…

Fish with Mushrooms

I cup fish I tablespoonful chop- I cup white sauce No. 2 (see page 68) ped onion 1 cups button mushrooms I tablespoonful butter 2…

Creamed Fish in Potato Cups

Discard all bones and skin from any boiled or fried fish. Season well with salt, pepper, and a little lemon-juice. Make white sauce No. 3…

Potato Cups

These are easily made by adding one egg yolk to one cup well-seasoned mashed potato. The potato should be slightly warm. This amount will…

Fresh Fish Cakes

4 Any kind of cooked fish can be used for these. It should be shredded fine and highly seasoned with salt, pepper, and a little…

Fish

freshly mashed, seasoned well with salt, butter, a little cream or rich milk, and one egg yolk added to each cup of potato. Beat the…

Fish Balls Baked

cheese I teaspoonful lemonjuice flaked I cup cold rice I egg Salt and pepper Beat the egg until light, then add fish, rice, cheese, and…

Fish Salad in Green Peppers

Cut lengthwise three or four green sweet peppers, remove the seeds and set away to chill. Discard all skin and bones from any cold boiled…

Shad-Roe Salad

When the shad roe is not needed for the fish dinner. a salad can be made of it for the next day's luncheon. It spoils quickly, so should be…

Jellied Fish

In summer cold fish is quite as acceptable as warm, and a luncheon dish can easily be prepared by mixing one and one-half cups of any…

Kedjeree

I cup left-over smoked I scant cup cooked fish I scant cup cooked rice 2 hard-cooked eggs

Seasoning

2 tablespoonfuls butter Cook eggs hard, or if any soft-cooked ones are left from breakfast steam them until hard. Carefully take out the…

Cayenne (I cup white sauce No I see)

I cup white sauce No.: I (see page 67) 2 tablespoonfuls butter Salt and white pepper Flake fish, add potato, and beat as for mashed…

Fish and Potato Salad

Use for this salad any left-over white fish, baked, boiled, broiled, or sautéd, being careful to remove all bones. For each cup of flaked…

Oyster Bisque

When creaming oysters, if the juice is not used, save it and make a bisque for the next meal. (It should not be kept long.) Melt two…

Salmon Soup

The remnants of any canned or boiled salmon may be used for this. Pick the fish apart and moisten with the liquor in the can and a little…

Salmon Croquettes

cup green peas tablespoonful lemonjuice cup boiled or canned salmon ½ cup white sauce No. 4 (see page 68) Salt, pepper, dash nutmeg Flake…

Salmon Loaf

1½ cups cold cooked 3 eggs, well beaten salmon (fresh or canned) cup bread-crumbs Mix well and steam dressing (see below). 3 tablespoonfuls…

Special Dressing for Salmon Loaf

I cup milk I well-beaten egg I scant tablespoonful I teaspoonful butter Salt and pepper corn-starch Heat milk, add corn-starch blended with…

Salmon Salad

Season large pieces of left-over salmon with vinegar, salt, and pepper. When ready to use, drain off liquid, place in center of platter on…

Salmon Scallop

Butter a baking-dish and put in alternate layers of bread-crumbs and cooked flaked salmon, having bottom and top layer crumbs. Season with…

Creamed Codfish and Macaroni

Heat one cup of creamed salt codfish with one cup of cooked macaroni, or macaroni and cheese, adding more cream or milk if necessary. Serve…

Codfish Scallop with Rice and Eggs

I 1½ cups creamed cod- 2 tablespoonfuls cream fish or I tablespoon ful butter I 1½ cups boiled rice 4 eggs Mix the cream or melted butter…

Fish with Pie Crust

Line a baking-tin with a good pastry crust and bake it. Remove all bones and skin from any cold boiled white fish and flake it. There…

Fish Hash

I cup any kind of I tablespoonful green white fish I cup diced potatoes I hard-cooked egg I teaspoonful mixed mustard 1 tablespoonful green…

Stuffed Peppers with Crab Meat

Cut a slice from the stem-end of as many green sweet peppers as needed, remove seeds and partition walls and parboil for five minutes…

Sardines with Tomato Catsup

Cook sardines in pan slightly. Heat catsup and pour over them. Serve on crackers.

Toasted Sardine Sandwiches

Cut thin slices of white bread into squares, triangles, or rounds. Remove bones and skin from sardines, add lemon-juice and a dash of…

Luncheon Relish of Sardines

Dip slices of cold hominy in milk and eggs beaten together. Lay them in a buttered pan and put one sardine on each slice. Brown lightly in…

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