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COOKED FISH
Canapés
Cold boiled fish makes excellent canapés. To each half pint of fish allowsix squares of toasted bread. If you have any cold boiled potatoes leftover, add milk to them, make them hot and put them into a pastry bag.
Decorate the edge of the toast with these mashed potatoes, using a smallstar tube; put them back in the oven until light brown. Make the fishinto a creamed fish. Rub the butter and flour together, add a half pint ofmilk, add the fish and a palatable seasoning of salt and pepper.
Dish the centers on top of the toast with this creamed fish and send at once to thetable. A very little fish here makes a good showing, and is one of the nicest of the hot canapés.
Baked Sardines
After sardines have once been opened it is best to remove them from thecan and make them into some dish for the next meal. They may be broiledand served on toast, or made with bread crumbs into sardine balls andfried, or baked.
To bake them, stir the oil from the can into a halfcupful of water, add a teaspoonful of Worcestershire sauce, a half teaspoonful of salt and a dash of pepper. Put the fish into a baking pan, run them into the oven until very hot, then dish them, baste them with the sauce and send them at once to the table.
Fish Croquettes
Any cold boiled fish that is left over may be made into croquettes. Toeach cupful of the cold fish allow one level tablespoonful of butter, twolevel tablespoonfuls of flour and a half cupful of milk. Rub the butterand flour together, add the milk; when boiling take from the fire. Add tothe fish a level teaspoonful of salt, a dash of black pepper, atablespoonful of chopped parsley and a few drops of onion juice; mix thiscarefully with the paste and turn out to cool. When cold, form into smallcylinders, dip in beaten egg and fry in deep hot fat.
Fish à la CrêmeOne pint of cold boiled fish, mixed with a half pint of white sauce. Turn this into a baking dish and brown. Or when the two are carefully heatedtogether, serve in either ramekin dishes or in a border of browned mashedpotatoes.
