Crayfish Pate
Origin: Saint Petersburg, Russia
Source: Elena Molokhovets (Елена Молоховец), 1901
Ingredients
- 60 crayfish
- 1 stakan dried green peas
- 2 1/2 stakan cream or milk
- 1 batch fish forcemeat
- 1 batch puff pastry
- 1 spoon crayfish butter (for sauce)
- 1 spoon flour
- 1/2 lemon
- 2 stakan meat broth
Instructions
- Make fish forcemeat (No. 1405); clean 60 crayfish; cook peas soft in cream.
- Layer forcemeat, crayfish tails/legs, peas, forcemeat on a crumbed dish.
- Cover with puff-pastry strips (No. 1403), glaze, and bake 1 hour.
- Make a crayfish-butter broth sauce; pour into the pate and serve the rest separately.