Baked Bluefish

Ingredients

• a nice large bluefish
• rub the fish all over with salt
• sprinkle with a little salt and pepper
• small pieces of butter
• enough water to cover the bottom

Method

1. 1

   Prepare the bluefish for baking, stuff with forcemeat, sew up, and rub with salt.

2. 2

   Place in a pan with water and bake, basting often with liquid and butter until cooked.

As published

This recipe was extracted from Mrs. Seely's Cook Book: A Manual of French and American Cookery : with .. (1902) by Lida Seely, page 59. The excerpt below is the record exactly as published.

Baked Bluefish Select a nice large bluefish, clean, and prepare it for baking. Wash it in salted water, and after drying it thoroughly, stuff it with veal forcemeat for fish, or else with bread forcemeat, to which a few capers have been added. Sew up the opening and rub the fish ali over with salt. Then, having put small pieces of butter over it, place it in a large pan with enough water to cover the bottom, and bake in a hot oven for forty-five or fifty minutes. After it begins to bake, sprinkle it with a little salt and peppe

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