Sea Trout with Cucumbers and Cream

Name: Sea Trout with Cucumbers and Cream
Yield: Serves 4
Ingredients: 1 cucumber; juice of 1 lemon and rind from half of it; ½ cup (1 stick) butter; 3-pound middle cut of sea trout; 1 onion, thinly sliced; 1 sprig of dill; 1 pint light cream; 3 tablespoons flour; ⅔ cup water; salt and pepper

Preparation info

Serves
4

Difficulty
Easy

Appears in

The Game Cookbook

By Clarissa Dickson Wright and Johnny Scott

Published 2004

About

In the days of the Regency, salmon and sea trout were still very common but cucumbers less so. Here is a delicate dish which preserves the flavor of the sea trout.

Ingredients

1 onion, thinly sliced
½ cup (1 stick) butter
3

Fish course
Pescatarian

Method

Preheat the oven to 400°F.

Butter an ovenproof dish and scatter the onion on the bottom of it. Smear the sea trout with half the butter, season well with salt and pepper, and place on the onion. Chop the dill and add to the cream, mix in the water, and pour it over the fish. Co