Vincent Price Bookbinder Snapper Soup Recipes

VINCENT PRICE FRIDAY CHICKEN

Steps:

• Preheat oven to 375°F.
• Take the capon or chicken and loosen the skin by sliding your hand under the skin around the thighs and breast meat, tearing the connective tissue from the upper layer.
• Finely grate the onion using a box grater or food processor- make sure you don't lose the liquid from the onion; set aside.
• Cut the crusts from the bread; discard crusts (or reserve for some other dish).
• Sprinkle the bread with the water and let it sit for 3 minutes; squeeze the excess water from the slices, and crumble or roughly chop into pieces.
• To make the stuffing, thoroughly combine the moistened bread with the parsley, eggs, 1 teaspoon salt, 1/4 teaspoon pepper, thyme or sage, and grated onion (together with the onion juice).
• Insert the stuffing between the loosened skin and meat of the capon: over the breast and into the thighs.
• Take a shallow roasting pan with a rack and place the capon breast-up on the rack.
• Rub the capon with the softened butter, then sprinkle with the remaining 1 teaspoon salt and 1/4 teaspoon pepper.
• Roast at 375° for 45 minutes, basting frequently with the pan juices.
• Reduce the temperature to 350° and roast for an additional 1 hour, basting every 20 minutes, then carefully turn the capon over onto the breast and cook for another 15 minutes to brown the meat on the back.
• Remove from oven and let chicken rest for 5 minutes then carve and serve hot, or also is good cold the next day.
• Source: "A Treasury of Great Recipes" posted by Michael in Phoenix at Gail's Recipe Swap.

BOOKBINDER RED SNAPPER SOUP

Steps:

• To make soup base, heat olive oil in a Dutch oven over medium heat; add carrots, celery, garlic, onion, red bell pepper, and green bell pepper; cook, stirring frequently, about 4 minutes.
• Stir in peppercorns, bay leaf, tomato paste, thyme, rosemary, and cilantro; cook 2 minutes and add 7 cups of the vegetable broth; heat to boil.
• Melt butter in a small saucepan; add flour and cornstarch, cook, stirring constantly, 4 to 5 minutes.
• Slowly whisk in remaining 1 cup broth until mixture is smooth; add mixture to soup base; cover and simmer over medium-low heat 20 minutes.
• Taste and adjust seasonings.
• Strain through a fine-mesh sieve or cheesecloth; discard solids and return broth to pot.
• To make snapper, heat water to boil in a medium-sized saucepan over medium-high heat; add onions and celery; blanch until soft, about 3 minutes.
• Remove with a slotted spoon and add to broth.
• Boil fish in the same water until cooked through.
• Remove fish from water; flake very finely with a fork.
• Stir snapper and sherry, if desired, into soup base; heat through.

VINCENT PRICE SOPA POBLANO - POBLANO CHILE SOUP

Steps:

• In a large saucepan, heat the oil, then add the pork and sauté over medium heat, stirring frequently, until browned, about 7 minutes.
• Add the chopped onion, corn, poblano chile, zucchini, tomato puree, and the chicken stock.
• Simmer until vegetables are tender, about 20 minutes.
• Add the avocado and Parmesan cheese, stir to incorporate, then season with salt to taste, and garnish with cilantro springs and serve immediately.

VINCENT PRICE'S CHICKEN SWEET AND HOT

Steps:

• Combine all of the above ingredients, except chicken, in a pan.
• Heat gently, stirring until jelly is blended and sauce is smooth (it doesn't really thicken a lot, just a little bit).
• Cool.
• Pour sauce over 1 quartered chicken and marinate for 2 or 3 hours (I had a change of plans the day I prepared the marinade; mine marinated overnight).
• Cover and cook in preheated moderate oven (I used 350 degrees F for the first 40 minutes, then raised it to 375 degrees F).
• Uncover, increase oven temperature to hot (I raised it to 425 degrees F) and baste frequently until chicken is an even dark brown.
• (Before I put the chicken in at the higher temperature, I used a large spoon to take out some of the marinade/basting sauce; it seemed to make a lot to me-- I left just enough in the dish to use for basting, but not so little that it would burn at the high) Serve with rice.

VINCENT PRICE BOOKBINDER SNAPPER SOUP

Steps:

• In a large soup kettle cook the frozen snapper (in the shell) in the 3 quarts water for 90 minutes.
• When the turtle meat is tender, remove the snapper from the pot and allow to cool. Pick the meat from the shell, keep warm, and set aside.
• Put the turtle shell back into the snapper stock, along with the beef extract, beef stock, carrots, celery, onion, marjoram, salt and pepper (to taste), tomato puree, Tabasco, bay leaf, and garlic.
• Simmer for 30 minutes and strain.
• In a separate container mix together the melted butter with the flour. Beat the butter/flour mixture into the soup until smooth.
• Cut the snapper meat into small pieces and add to soup. Add the chopped hard-cooked eggs to soup. Stir in the sherry and sliced lemons. Let soup simmer for an additional 30 minutes.
• Presentation: Serve soup in a tureen. Into each soup bowl ladle some of the snapper meat, a couple slices lemon, and some soup. Pass a small pitcher of sherry and let each person add some to his/her soup according to taste.
• Using red snapper instead of turtle: Cook the skin, head, and bones of the fish with some of the flesh for 90 minutes in 3 quarts of water. Proceed with recipe. Dice about a cup and a half of the snapper fillets and add them to the soup for the last half hour.