BAOKLIST

FLAVOUR OF THE FORTNIGHT

Kicking oil a series of articles in which local chels share their culinary secrets, . Fiona Bashlord ol Glasgow’s Two Fat Ladies marks the arrival of the wild salmon and sea trout season with two complementary recipes:

BAKED SALMON OR TROUT

it’s best to buy whole iish which range from 2lb—10Ib or more. Sprinkle salt in the gutted cavity and douse liberally 1 with white wine. Herbs such as i parsley, coriander and dill can be 1 included. Wrap the whole fish in tin foil 1 and bake in a moderate oven lor10—20 I mins depending on the size oi the iish. Uncover immediately and allow fish to cool. When ready to serve, simply peel off skin; the flesh will peel oil the bone. It can be served warm or at room temperature and is best with green peppercorn mayonnaise.

SALMON/TROUT KOULBIAKA

The left-over llesh orthe poached whole fish can also be be included in a Salmon/T rout Koulbiaka. Flake the fish

FOOD

Fiona Bashlord brings out the llavour ollish

llesh. Saute mushrooms in olive oil with crushed coriander seed and lemon juice. Cook some basmati rice with onion, bayleat and salt. Then mix the fish with the mushrgoms and the rice. Roll out four sheets oi lilo pastry brushed with butter and put mixture onto the layered iilo. Bake the log in a medium oven until golden brown. This dish is good served cold as well as hot and goes well with a salad of curly endive, radicchio and watercress.

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decorating it with the distinctive split almonds. Goodfellows has been baking the cake since 1897, and. happily. continues to do so.

Another Dundee success story is Wm Low. This rapidly expanding supermarket chain had familiar beginnings. In 1868. James Low opened a grocers shop in Hunter Street, Dundee. Three years later he began manufacturing bread, confectionery and preserves. Then he did something about which he would be kicking himself had his ambition been to see his name emblazoned in red all over the country a century later. He sold the retail side of the business to his brother William!

Dundee Cake

Taken from the Goodfellow & Steven

recipe book compiled in 1914.

802 butter or high grade vegetable lat

Bozsugar :

1002 shell egg i

1202 llour

ldozsunanas I

602 liner cut orange peel !

4 oz split almonds i l

All ingredients should be warmed to around 80°F before starting to make u the cake. Rub butter into 802 of the flour. Mix well then beat on fast speed for six minutes. Whisk together eggs and sugar and add to batter while mixing on slow speed. Scrape down the basin and mix for a further minute. Carefully mix in fruits and remaining flour. Place cake batter in baking tin. Decorate top of batter with almonds and bake in oven at 300°F.

V IN PRINT

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pavement puddles into Boots. This

might seem a superficial

observation, but it seems to me that

it has a bearing on a lot of the recipes

inside. I greatly enjoyed reading this book i

which is published in conjunction

with the 800 celebrations. It is like

unearthing an old newspaper that

ran adverts for lislc stockings and

sold for 2d. It describes sweet shops

in which a piece of newspaper would

be rolled into a cone or poke to hold

a selection ofsoor plums, snowballs,

aniseed and horehound bilings

(boiled sweets). It has recipes for

cinder toffee. tablet. sherbet. fly

cemetery (currants and raisins in

custard sandwiched between two

sheets of pastry) and pavey stanes

(hard biscuits coated with even

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