Serves 4

Ingredients

• 225g/8oz haddock  
• 225g/8oz other white fish 
• 225g/8oz smoked haddock  
• 225g/8oz salmon
• 24 small button onions
• 16 small button mushrooms
• Half a glass of dry sherry
• Juice of 1 lemon
• 420ml/15floz milk 
• 280ml/10floz double cream
• 100g/3.5oz butter
• 40g/1.5oz flour
• 3 tablespoons finely chopped spring onions
• 675g/1.5 lb potatoes
• Salt and pepper
• 1 tablespoon chopped parsley
• Dash of Tabasco
• 1 tablespoon oil
• 55g/2oz butter
• 55g/2oz clarified butter

Instructions

1. Preheat the oven to 200C/400F/Gas mark 6.
2. Melt 45g/1.5oz butter, do not colour. Add the flour and mix to make a roux.
3. In another pan, boil the milk and cream.
4. Slowly add the liquor to the roux to make a white sauce, stirring well. Leave to cook for 5 minutes.
5. Add the chopped spring onions and parsley to the sauce and put to one side, covering with cling film. Do not allow a skin to form.
6. Cook the button onions and mushrooms in a little water with lemon juice, salt and pepper. When just cooked, strain and cool.
7. Meanwhile, cut the fish into evenly sliced 2.5cm/1 inch pieces or cubes.
8. Grease a large pie dish with 2oz butter and add seasoning. Mix the fish with the onions, mushrooms and salt and pepper and pile into the pie dish.
9. Peel, wash and dry the potatoes and cut into thin slices. Heat the remaining 55g/2oz butter and some oil in a frying pan and fry the potatoes, colouring nicely, and then drain.
10. Pour the sauce over the fish and tap the pie dish to let the air escape.
11. Carefully place the lightly browned potatoes over the fish in two layers to make a crust, the top layer being nicely presented.
12. Brush with clarified butter,and cook for 25-30 minutes.

Wine recommendation:
Villa Maria Reserve Chardonnay 2001

Specific conditions: 
Loss of weight/appetite

Nutritional information (approximate values per portion)
Energy: 625kcal; Protein: 27g; Fat: 48g (of which saturates: 28g); Carbohydrate: 22g; Fibre: 1.5g;

Cancerbackup thanks Brian Turner for contributing this recipe.