Strata

Name: Strata (Seafood pudding)
Yield: Serves 6
Ingredients: the meat from a large crab, or 250 g (9 oz) shelled crab or shelled prawns; 150 ml (¼ pint) mayonnaise; salt, pepper and chilli powder; 3 × 15 ml spoon (3 tablespoons) mixed herbs – chopped parsley, tarragon, chervil and chives; 4 eggs; about 175 g (6 oz) Gruyère, fontina or Gouda cheese, grated; 250 ml (9 fl oz) single cream; 12 slices from a small sandwich loaf; 3 × 15 ml spoon (3 tablespoons) grated parmesan cheese; 250 ml (9 fl oz) milk; a tender celery stalk, chopped finely; butter; 15 ml spoon (1 tablespoon) chopped onion

Seafood pudding

Preparation info

Serves
6

Difficulty
Easy

Appears in

The Cooking of the Mediterranean

By Jane Grigson

Published 1991

About

Basic recipe: Mayonnaise

One of the best bread-and-butter puddings, but made with crab or prawns. For economy, a proportion of lightly cooked and flaked white fish can be used with the crab or prawns, but never more than half.

Ingredients

butter
12 slices from a small sandwich loaf
the meat from a large crab, or 250 g

Fish course
Pescatarian
Mediterranean

Method

Butter the bread and cut off the crusts. Season the crab or prawns. Mix the celery and onion with the mayonnaise, herbs and parmesan and then fold into the shellfish. Make six sandwiches with the mixture.

Butter a dish that will take the sandwiches in a single layer. Cut them in half and place in the dish. Dot with the grated Gruyère, fontina or Gouda. Beat the eggs with the milk and cr