Curry of Catfish
Origin: Tidewater Virginia
Source: Mary Randolph, 1824
Ingredients
- white channel catfish
- 1 quart water
- 2 onions
- parsley
- 1 spoonful butter
- 1 spoonful flour
- 1 large tea-spoonful curry powder
Instructions
- Take the white channel catfish, cut off their heads, and skin and clean them.
- Cut them in pieces four inches long.
- Put as many as will be sufficient for a dish into a stew pan with a quart of water, two onions, and chopped parsley.
- Let them stew gently till the water is reduced to half a pint.
- Take the fish out and lay them on a dish, and cover them to keep them hot.
- Rub a spoonful of butter into one of flour, add a large tea-spoonful of curry powder, and thicken the gravy with it.
- Shake it over the fire a few minutes, and pour it over the fish; be careful to have the gravy smooth.