June, 1912 
crumbs and baked ina mold. The fillets 
of fish picked from the big backbone of 
the cod or haddock will be ample to form 
a generous escalop even after a portion 
of it has been used for the chowder. The 
fish may be used alone if there is suffi- 
cient quantity when hungry campers or 
bungalow company demand big esca- 
lops, or it may be used with oysters, or 
with a combination of oysters and clams 
where sea food is plentiful, and may be had 
for the catching. Butter the mold or— 
when made in quantity—a large bak- 
ing pan, place in it a layer of fish, and a 
layer of finely sifted cracker crumbs, or 
rolled bread crumbs, the layer of crumbs 
being dotted with particles of butter. For 
those who like the flavor, a little onion 
should be grated over each layer of 
crumbs; or lemon juice may take the 
place of the onion. Fill the pan with al- 
ternate layers of the fish and seasoned 
crumbs, adding a little pepper and salt to 
each layer. Alternate the fish layers 
with a layer of oysters if desired, and 
when the baking pan is full, moisten with 
a cup of milk, or better still with a cup 
of oyster or clam juice if convenient. 
Have the top layer of buttered crumbs, 
and bake half an hour in a hot oven. 
AN IMPORTANT PRECAUTION 
For the city housewife who must pur- 
chase her sea food from the markets, great 
care is necessary in the selection and the 
preparation of fish in warm weather. 
Dishes served as nourishing food may be- 
come a dangerous poison in the hands of 
inexperienced or careless cooks. Fish of 
every sort are supposed to be more de- 
sirable than meat as a Summer diet; as it 
is known that they are not so heating, 
and are equally nourishing. With nec- 
essary precaution the fish diet may be 
made very acceptable throughout the hot 
weather; but beware of cold storage fish, 
or of any that is not known to be fresh. 
In buying fish in hot weather, carefully 
examine the eyes, the gills and the flesh. 
The eyes should be full and clear. the 
gills red, the flesh firm, and the skin and 
scales bright. Then, after buying a per- 
fectly fresh fish, see that it is kept on ice 
until it is used. If it is not desirable to 
keep them in the ice box with other food 
because of the “fishy odor” imparted to 
milk, butter, etc., have a piece of ice wrap- 
ped with the fish. The methods fre- 
quently resorted to for keeping fish over 
night by “salting down” or wrapping in 
a cloth wet with vinegar, will not be wise: 
as fish becomes stale and unfit for food 
more quickly than we realize. 
Medical experts assure us that it is 
more dangerous to eat stale fish than 
stale meat, because the moment that de- 
composition sets in, in the flesh of a fish, 
exceedingly poisonous products, possibly 
compounds of phosphorus, begin to form. 
The poison is an irritant, and its effects 
are usually first a severe attack of indi- 
sestion, then great coldness of the body, 
and nervous disturbance and depression. 
Another effect of the poison, still more 
serious, begins with nausea, severe and 
protracted vomiting, compression of the 
pulse, great lowering of the temperature, 
cramp and diarrhoea, sometimes ending 
with convulsions. 
The slight decomposition of meat does 
not produce these poisons, and accord- 
ingly “high” meat and game may be eaten 
with comparative impunity. But it should 
be kept in mind that fish, the moment de- 
composition sets in, becomes actual 
poison; and that the further the decom- 
position proceeds, the more poisonous the 
fish becomes. 
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