Baked Bluefish, Italian Style

Ingredients

• Score and scale the requisite amount of bluefish
• half a wineglassful of white wine
• three tablespoonfuls of mushroom liquor
• a little very finely chopped onion
• six chopped mushrooms
• season with salt and pepper
• cover the dish with buttered paper
• cook in a moderate oven for fifteen minutes

Method

1. 1

   Score and scale the requisite amount of bluefish and place it in a buttered pan with half a wineglassful of white wine, three tablespoonfuls of mushroom liquor, and a little very finely chopped onion, six chopped mushrooms, and season with salt and pepper.

2. 2

   Cover the dish with buttered paper and cook in a moderate oven for fifteen minutes, then remove and lay on a dish.

3. 3

   Place the liquor in a stewpan, add a gill of Spanish sauce, with one wineglassful of white wine, and reduce for two minutes.

4. 4

   Pour the sauce over the fish, with a little finely chopped parsley, and serve, with fancy croutons of bread.

As published

This recipe was extracted from The Cook Book, by "Oscar" of the Waldorf (1896) by Oscar Tschirky, page 6. The excerpt below is the record exactly as published.

Baked Bluefish, Italian Style. Score and scale the requisite amount of bluefish and place it in a buttered pan with half a wineglassful of white wine, three tablespoonfuls of mushroom liquor, and a little very finely chopped onion, six chopped mushrooms, and season with salt and pepper ; cover the dish with buttered paper and cook in a moderate oven for fifteen minutes

Cook this with the app: pantry check, scaling, and the assistant.