Thursday, August 28, 2014

English Fillet Mornay

1 lb English fillet
few chopped chives
2 hard boiled eggs
2 teaspoons plain cashew nuts

Method: Slightly cook fillet and break into pieces, cut eggs in chunks, halve the cashew nuts, add chives.

1/4 lb eating margarine
dash cayenne pepper
1/2 pint milk

Put margarine and milk and pepper into saucepan - when milk warm, add 1 flat tablespoon cornflour mixed with a little cold milk to make a thin paste - stirring all the time. Then pour over the fish etc working it in thoroughly. Transfer to a casserole dish. Top mornay with breadcrumbs and grated mild cheese. Reheat when needed. Serves 4-6.

Source: contributed by C. Anderson in Royal Adelaide Hospital Cookery Book: Our Favourite Recipes (Adelaide: 1981, 1st edition), p.33.

Note: "English fillet" is classified by the Macquarie Dictionary Australian Word Map as "regional Australian English" found in the regions of Eyre and Yorke Peninsula and Adelaide (South Australia), the Wimmera and Mallee (Victoria) and Perth (Western Australia). It is smoked cod

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