1092 A whole stuffed baked fish in aspic

Name: A whole stuffed baked fish in aspic (Majonez iz tsel’noj farshirovannoj zharenoj ryby)
Cuisine: Russia
Ingredients: 2–3 leaves red gelatin and other decorative ingredients; 1½ glasses olive oil; 1 glass vinegar; ½ lb butter; (2 onions); nutmeg; 6–10 eggs; 3 zolotniki fish glue and 6 lbs small fish, bones, and scales, or 1 calf’s head and calf’s feet; 2 carrots; 2 celery roots; 1½ parsley roots; 1½ leeks; 2–3 bay leaves; 1 glass sherry; about 4–6 onions; 10 allspice; 3 lbs boneless fish; a 5–6 lb fish; 1 glass milk; 1½ French rolls; salt; allspice

Majonez iz tsel’noj farshirovannoj zharenoj ryby

Preparation info

Difficulty
Medium

Appears in

A Gift to Young Housewives

By Elena Molokhovets

Published 1992

About

Ingredients

a 5–6 lb fish
3 lbs boneless fish
1½

Europe
Russia
Fish course
Pescatarian
Eastern Europe

Method

(Proportions are for 18–24 persons.) Clean a 5–6 lb fish, such as pike, zander, or salmon, and cut along the spine to take out the backbone. Add salt, remove the other bones, and stuff as follows:

Finely chop 3