Baked Filleted Whiting with Potatoes

Ingredients

• Fillets of whiting
• a few sliced cooked potatoes
• a little salt
• pepper
• nutmeg
• juice of a lemon
• melted butter sauce
• a little oil or fat
• a little chopped parsley

Method

1. 1

   Grease a gratin dish, place the fillets of whiting in the centre with the skin side downwards, arrange the potatoes all round, and season with salt, pepper and nutmeg.

2. 2

   Add the lemon juice and cover the whole with a melted butter sauce.

3. 3

   Sprinkle with the oil or melted fat, and bake in the oven for about 20 minutes; then add the parsley, and serve in the dish in which it was cooked.

As published

This recipe was extracted from The victory cookery book (1918) by Peel, C. S. Mrs, page 19. The excerpt below is the record exactly as published.

Baked Filleted Whiting with Potatoes Materials.—Fillets of whiting, a few sliced _ cooked potatoes, a little salt, pepper and | nutmeg, juice of a lemon, melted butter © sauce (see p. 46), a little oil or fat, a little | chopped parsley. Method.—Grease a gratin dish, place the © fillets of whiting in the centre with the skin © side downwards, arrange the potatoes all — round, and season with salt, pepper and © nutmeg. Add the lemon juice and cover — the whole with a melted butter sauce

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