Pike Baked In Sour Cream (german) Recipe

Instructions

1. Clean a pike weighing 3 or 4 pounds, or, if preferred, take part of a larger fish and cut into slices free from skin and bone.
2. Mince 2 small onions very finely, and break up 2 bay leaves into little pieces.
3. Butter a pie-dish thickly, and lay in it the slices of fish, with the onion and the bay leaves distributed amongst them.
4. Season with salt and cayenne, and pour half a pint of sour cream over the fish.
5. Bake in a moderate oven, and when three-fourths done strew finely grated bread crumbs thickly over it and return it to the oven to color.
6. Lift the slices carefully into a hot dish, and make a gravy by mixing a little stock or water, and a tablespoon of lemon juice, with the cream, etc., in the dish.
7. Mix thoroughly.
8. Pour the gravy round the fish, and serve very hot.
9. Time to bake, about half an hour.
10. Sufficient for four or five persons.