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17. Salmon, Matelote Sauce.
Make a marinade, in which stew the salmon.
When it is
done, pick off the scales carefully. Pour the
marinade over
the salmon to keep it hot. Then make a sauce
in the
following manner :-Put a good bit of butter and
two
spoonfuls of flour in a stew-pan, and make a
brown sauce.
When it begins to colour, throw four or six onions
into your
sauce, and let them melt ; keep stirring with
a wooden spoon.
Then moisten with a pint of red wine ; add a
few spoonfuls
of the marinade in which yon have stewed the
salmon, some
trimmings of mushrooms, a bunch of parsley and
green
onions well seasoned, and a small piece of glaze
; season the
whole, and put a little sugar to correct the
acidity of the
wine ; skim the grease, and keep the sauce thick.
In case it
should not be thick enough to cover the fish,
add a small bit
of butter kneaded with flour, a quarter of a
pound of fresh
butter, some essence of anchovies, the
juice of a lemon, and
some salt and pepper. Drain your fish, and cover
it with the
sauce, after having strained it through a tammy.
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