Original 1914 recipe
Verbatim from the first edition of the Big Cookbook.

French-inspired fish stew: haddock fillet poached in a stock made from trimmings, white wine, and a bouquet garni, laid on a bed of cooked onion slices with salt, pepper, and lemon. The sauce is enriched with butter and egg yolks (must not boil) and poured over the fish along with oysters or mushrooms. Stor kokebok 1914, pp. 96–97.
Source: Henriette Schønberg Erken, Stor kokebok, 1914-utg. s. 96 (falt i det fri)
Matelote is a French fish stew that Erken adapts to Norwegian ingredients—here with haddock and white wine instead of the classic red-wine version. The recipe shows French kitchen technique in a Norwegian household around 1914: stock made from trimmings, the fish poached in the stock, and the sauce enriched with egg yolks and butter that must not boil.
Fillet the fish
Clean the fish, cut the fillets free from skin and bones, and divide them into two or three pieces depending on size.
Make the stock
Put the head, bones, and skin in a pot. Pour in the white wine, any oyster liquor, and enough water to just cover. Add a slice of onion, the bouquet garni, and the carrot slice. Let the stock simmer for half an hour, and strain it.
Assemble the pot
Cook the thinly sliced onions until tender. Lay a layer of onion in the bottom of an enameled pot, place the fish pieces on top, and sprinkle with salt and pepper. Drizzle with lemon juice and lay a few onion slices on top.
Poach the fish
Strain the stock over the fish and let it poach slowly, covered, until the fish is done, about 15 minutes. If using mushrooms, blanch them in the stock.
Plate up
Lift the fish carefully onto a warm serving platter and place oysters or mushrooms in between.
Enrich the sauce
Stir the egg yolks with a little stock, and enrich the hot stock with butter and the egg-yolk mixture. The sauce must not boil after the egg yolks are added. Pour the sauce over the fish and serve at once.
Measures have been modernized (2 dl white wine), and the use of the onion clarified (cooked, thin slices as a bed). Oyster liquor is noted as optional since fresh oysters with their liquor are hard to come by; mushrooms are mentioned as an alternative, blanched in the stock. Otherwise the method is unchanged.
Original 1914 recipe
Verbatim from the first edition of the Big Cookbook.

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Note til Modernisert
Mål er modernisert (2 dl hvitvin), og løkens bruk er tydeliggjort (kokte, tynne skiver som seng). Østersvann er angitt som valgfritt siden ferske østers med skallvann er lite tilgjengelig; sjampinjong er nevnt som alternativ, forvellet i kraften. Ellers er fremgangsmåten uendret.
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