Baked Cod

Ingredients

• a good sized fish, weighing four or five pounds
• a mixture of pepper and salt
• a slice from a loaf of bread
• butter
• a pint of water
• a gill of vinegar
• a lemon cut in very thin slices
• a little flour

Method

1. 1

   Clean and dry the fish, rub with salt and pepper, fill with buttered bread, tie it up, and place bits of butter on top.

2. 2

   Dredge with flour, place in a pan with water, and bake in a hot oven for one hour.

3. 3

   Serve with gravy made from the drippings.

As published

This recipe was extracted from The housekeeper's companion (1883), page 78. The excerpt below is the record exactly as published.

Baked Cod. — Clean a good sized fish, weighing four or five pounds; wash it and dry it well in a cloth; rub it inside and out with a mixture of pepper and salt; cut a slice from a loaf of bread, spread it thickly with butter; moisten it with hot water, and fill the body of the fish; tie a thread around it to keep the dressing in, then put bits of butter, the size of a hickory nut, all over the surface; dredge flour over it until it looks white; then lay a trivet on some muffin rings in a dripping-pan, and lay the fish on; put in a pint of water to baste with, then put it in a hot oven, and baste frequently; in one hour it will be done. Take it up on a hot dish, add a gill of vinegar to the gravy, or a lemon cut in very thin slices; dredge in a little flour

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