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Newsgroups: rec.food.recipes
From: maury@turing.eecs.uic.edu (Maurine Neiberg)
Subject: My Grandmother's Gefilte Fish Recipe
Organization: University of Illinois at Chicago
Date: Wed, 9 Mar 1994 18:23:34 GMT
Message-ID: <MAURY.94Mar9122335@turing.eecs.uic.edu>
This is my mother's gefilte fish recipe, which was adapted from her
mother's recipe, and is the best gefilte fish I've ever had in my
life. And I've eaten a lot of gefilte fish in my life. She wrote it
down for me a couple of years ago, but like most of her recipes, all
measurements are approximate, and written instructions were
supplimented with lots of hand motions. If you like sugar, put some in.
As you can probably guess, this is an enormous amount of work,
and usually takes all of the day before Seder.
The two "secrets" are using salmon, and working lots of air into the
fish mixture so that the final product is very light.
Fish:
1 whole Buffalo (or other fatty fish)
1 whole Salmon
1 whole Walleye Pike
(have the fish market fillet them and give you the bones and skin for
broth. At this time of year the fish market will probably grind the
fish for you too, which is an enormous time saver.)
Broth:
4 onions cut in half
4-6 stalks of celery (including leafy parts)
2 whole carrots
Fish bones and skin
Put above ingredients in the largest pot you own and cover it with
water. Bring to a boil and simmer for 2-3 hours. This should make a
fairly rich stock.
Fish Balls:
2 large onions - ground through a meat grinder
Fish fillets ground through a meat grinder (seperately from the
onions. Sometimes the fish market will do this for you. Food
processors do not work well for this. The texture is wrong, too
mushy.)
1 tsp sugar (optional)
1 tsp white pepper
salt (1 tsp?)
approximately 1/4 cup matzo meal
4 egg whites
2 egg yolks
1/2 cup extremely cold water (put in freezer, but make sure there's no ice
in it.)
In a wooden bowl, using a round bladed chopper chop ground fish and
ground onions. Use a turning motion, working as much air in a
possible. (This is where the visual aids come in handy.) Chop for
about 10 minutes. Add matzo meal and spices and keep chopping using
the same motions (about 5 more minutes). Beat egg whites until frothy
(not stiff) and pour over the fish mixture. Beat egg yolks well, add
the very cold water and pour over fish mixture. DO NOT MIX. Chop the
mixture, adding more air, until eggs are well worked in.
Strain fish broth and bring back to a gentle simmer. Make balls of
the fish mixture (handle as little as possible) and drop gentley in
broth. Peel and slice carrots into 1/4 inch rounds and add to broth.
Partially cover and simmer for about 2 hours. Turn the balls
occasionally if there are too many for them to turn on their own.
When cooked, remove fish balls and place in a single layer in storage
containers. Remove carrot slices from broth and put one carrot on
each fish ball. Refrigerate.
Bring fish broth to a boil and boil lightly for about 3 hours, or
until reduced to 1/3 - 1/2 of its original volume. Pour reduces broth
over fish balls and refrigerate until cold and broth has jelled.
Serve cold with horse raddish.
Serves about 20 people with leftovers.
--
Maurine Neiberg maury@turing.eecs.uic.edu