Baked Codlin

Ingredients

• 1 small cod, about 3 lbs. weight
• 1 teaspoonful mixed herbs
• 1 quart water
• brown crumbs
• 2 oz. butter
• 1 teaspoonful anchovy essence
• pints shrimp sauce

Method

1. 1

   Wash and clean the fish; dry it and sprinkle over with brown crumbs.

2. 2

   Grease a baking tin.

3. 3

   Lay on the cod, pour in the water, add the herbs, anchovy essence, and butter broken in small pieces.

4. 4

   Cover with a greased paper and bake in moderate oven one hour.

5. 5

   Remove the paper, lift the fish carefully on a dish.

6. 6

   Strain the gravy, and use it for the shrimp sauce.

7. 7

   Pour the sauce round the fish.

8. 8

   Garnish with lemon, parsley, and shrimps, and serve hot.

As published

This recipe was extracted from Sea Cookery (1911) by Richard Bond, page 34. The excerpt below is the record exactly as published.

BAKED CODLIN. 1 small cod, about 3 lbs. weight \ teaspoonful mixed herbs 1 quart water brown crumbs 2 oz. butter 1 teaspoonful anchovy essence pints shrimp sauce

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