How to Cook Fish by Olive Green
43 episodes - English - Latest episode: over 4 years ago - ★★★ - 2 ratingsOne hundred simple fish sauces. Sixty-five ways to cook mackerel. The Catching of Unshelled Fish. Twenty-seven ways to Cook Frogslegs. Now that should certainly make you reach for your apron and fish knife!
How to Cook Fish by Olive Green is a vintage culinary classic, filled with simple, easy to follow recipes rendered in a terse, no nonsense style. There's none of this fiddling with scales, weights and measures. What you get is a mélange of interesting, unusual ways to cook seafood without worrying about lists of ingredients, timings, temperature or any of the conventions followed by traditional cookbooks.
If you've read that old Victorian favorite, Lavender and Old Lace (which was later adapted very successfully as Arsenic and Old Lace) by Myrtle Reed, you'd certainly be interested to know that the author had an equally successful career as a writer of popular cook books. Writing under the pseudonym Olive Green, Reed published six very successful books on cooking. However, from 1898 to her suicide in 1911, she continuously published at least one novel every year. The books are romantic and highly emotional in nature, full of unrequited passion, revenge, mystery and supernatural happenings. She also wrote a collection of stories about important women who made a difference to society. In between, she wrote pamphlets, married her Canadian pen-pal, suffered severe and debilitating bouts of insomnia and engaged in charity work.
Her cookbooks are characterized by interesting tips on home making and the art of cooking, peppered with literary nuggets and quotations, witty remarks and anecdotes, all of which make How to Cook Fish not just an excellent recipe book but also an interesting and entertaining read. She also provides lists of what fish are in season during particular times of year, thus ensuring that the cook uses only the freshest of ingredients.
How to Cook Fish is divided into 45 chapters. The One Hundred Fish Sauces are arranged in alphabetical order, starting with “Admiral Sauce” and ending with “White Sauce.” In between you have recipes for “Brown Tomato Sauce” “Sicilian Sauce” and other such unusual concoctions. Under the chapter One Hundred Miscellaneous Recipes you have items such as Fish a la Brunswick, Chartreuse of Fish, Jellied Fish Salad and many other great variations.
This is indeed a great addition to your kitchen library and the clear, simple way in which the recipes are presented would tempt even the least adventurous of cooks to try a hand at one of these delicious sounding creations.
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Episodes
01 – The Catching of Unshelled Fish
January 02, 2024 00:00 - 8 minutes - 2.86 MBMore great books at LoyalBooks.com
03 – Eleven Court Bouillons
December 31, 2023 00:00 - 6 minutes - 1.91 MBMore great books at LoyalBooks.com
04 – One Hundred Simple Fish Sauces
December 30, 2023 00:00 - 34 minutes - 15.3 MBMore great books at LoyalBooks.com
05 – Ten Ways to Serve Anchovies
December 29, 2023 00:00 - 3 minutes - 977 KBMore great books at LoyalBooks.com
06 – Forty-Five Ways to Cook Bass
December 28, 2023 00:00 - 24 minutes - 10.5 MBMore great books at LoyalBooks.com
07 – Eight Ways to Cook Blackfish
December 27, 2023 00:00 - 6 minutes - 2.86 MBMore great books at LoyalBooks.com
08 – Twenty-Six Ways to Cook Bluefish
December 26, 2023 00:00 - 10 minutes - 4.77 MBMore great books at LoyalBooks.com
09 – Five Ways to Cook Butterfish
December 25, 2023 00:00 - 2 minutes - 977 KBMore great books at LoyalBooks.com
10 – Twenty-Two Ways to Cook Carp
December 24, 2023 00:00 - 10 minutes - 4.77 MBMore great books at LoyalBooks.com
11 – Six Ways to Cook Catfish
December 23, 2023 00:00 - 2 minutes - 977 KBMore great books at LoyalBooks.com
12 – Sixty-Seven Ways to Cook Codfish
December 22, 2023 00:00 - 27 minutes - 12.4 MBMore great books at LoyalBooks.com
13 – Forty-five Ways to Cook Eels
December 21, 2023 00:00 - 25 minutes - 11.4 MBMore great books at LoyalBooks.com
14 – Fifteen Ways to Cook Finnan Haddie
December 20, 2023 00:00 - 5 minutes - 1.91 MBMore great books at LoyalBooks.com
15 – Thirty-Two Ways to Cook Flounder
December 19, 2023 00:00 - 18 minutes - 7.63 MBMore great books at LoyalBooks.com
16 – Twenty-Seven Ways to Cook Frog Legs
December 18, 2023 00:00 - 11 minutes - 4.77 MBMore great books at LoyalBooks.com
17 – Twenty-Two Ways to Cook Haddock
December 17, 2023 00:00 - 12 minutes - 4.77 MBMore great books at LoyalBooks.com
18 – Eighty Ways to Cook Halibut
December 16, 2023 00:00 - 32 minutes - 14.3 MBMore great books at LoyalBooks.com
19 – Twenty-Five Ways to Cook Herring
December 15, 2023 00:00 - 9 minutes - 3.81 MBMore great books at LoyalBooks.com
20 – Nine Ways to Cook Kingfish
December 14, 2023 00:00 - 3 minutes - 977 KBMore great books at LoyalBooks.com
21 – Sixty-Five Ways to Cook Mackerel
December 13, 2023 00:00 - 33 minutes - 14.3 MBMore great books at LoyalBooks.com
22 – Five Ways to Cook Mullet
December 12, 2023 00:00 - 1 minute - 977 KBMore great books at LoyalBooks.com
23 – Fifteen Ways to Cook Perch
December 11, 2023 00:00 - 5 minutes - 1.91 MBMore great books at LoyalBooks.com
24 – Ten Ways to Cook Pickerel
December 10, 2023 00:00 - 5 minutes - 1.91 MBMore great books at LoyalBooks.com
25 – Twenty Ways to Cook Pike
December 09, 2023 00:00 - 11 minutes - 4.77 MBMore great books at LoyalBooks.com
26 – Ten Ways to Cook Pompano
December 08, 2023 00:00 - 3 minutes - 977 KBMore great books at LoyalBooks.com
27 – Thirteen Ways to Cook Red Snapper
December 07, 2023 00:00 - 6 minutes - 2.86 MBMore great books at LoyalBooks.com
28 – One Hundred and Thirty Ways to Cook Salmon
December 06, 2023 00:00 - 47 minutes - 21 MBMore great books at LoyalBooks.com
29 – Fourteen Ways to Cook Salmon-Trout
December 05, 2023 00:00 - 8 minutes - 2.86 MBMore great books at LoyalBooks.com
30 – Twenty Ways to Cook Sardines
December 04, 2023 00:00 - 9 minutes - 3.81 MBMore great books at LoyalBooks.com
31 – Ninety-Five Ways to Cook Shad
December 03, 2023 00:00 - 48 minutes - 21.9 MBMore great books at LoyalBooks.com
32 – Sixteen Ways to Cook Sheepshead
December 02, 2023 00:00 - 8 minutes - 2.86 MBMore great books at LoyalBooks.com
33 – Nine Ways to Cook Skate
December 01, 2023 00:00 - 4 minutes - 1.91 MBMore great books at LoyalBooks.com
34 – Thirty-Five Ways to Cook Smelts
November 30, 2023 00:00 - 17 minutes - 7.63 MBMore great books at LoyalBooks.com
35 – Fifty-Five Ways to Cook Soles
November 29, 2023 00:00 - 26 minutes - 11.4 MBMore great books at LoyalBooks.com
36 – Twenty-Five Ways to Cook Sturgeon
November 28, 2023 00:00 - 12 minutes - 4.77 MBMore great books at LoyalBooks.com
37 – Fifty Ways to Cook Trout
November 27, 2023 00:00 - 18 minutes - 7.63 MBMore great books at LoyalBooks.com
38 – Fifteen Ways to Cook Turbot
November 26, 2023 00:00 - 6 minutes - 2.86 MBMore great books at LoyalBooks.com
39 – Five Ways to Cook Weakfish
November 25, 2023 00:00 - 4 minutes - 1.91 MBMore great books at LoyalBooks.com
40 – Four Ways to Cook Whitebait
November 24, 2023 00:00 - 2 minutes - 977 KBMore great books at LoyalBooks.com
41 – Twenty-Five Ways to Cook Whitefish
November 23, 2023 00:00 - 11 minutes - 4.77 MBMore great books at LoyalBooks.com
42 – Eight Ways to Cook Whiting
November 22, 2023 00:00 - 3 minutes - 977 KBMore great books at LoyalBooks.com
43 – One Hundred Miscellaneous Recipes
November 21, 2023 00:00 - 46 minutes - 21 MBMore great books at LoyalBooks.com