Baked Fish

Ingredients

• sprinkle with salt
• salt, pepper
• a table-spoonful of butter
• one pint of water
• dredge it well with flour

Method

1. 1

   Wash carefully, and sprinkle with salt.

2. 2

   Season some bread crumbs with salt, pepper, a little chopped onion, and a tablespoonful of butter; with this stuff the fish, fasten securely so as to keep it together.

3. 3

   Put it in a baking-pan, with one pint of water.

4. 4

   Season the fish with salt, pepper, and butter; dredge it well with flour, and baste frequently.

5. 5

   Bake it an hour and a half, and when it is done garnish it with hard-boiled eggs cut in rings, and parsley.

6. 6

   Serve with potatoes.

As published

This recipe was extracted from The new Kentucky home cook book (1884) by Maysville (Ky.). Methodist Episcopal Church, South., page 12. The excerpt below is the record exactly as published.

BAKED FISH. Wash carefully, and sprinkle with salt. Season some bread crumbs with salt, pepper, a little chopped onion, and a table-spoonful of butter; with this stuff the fish, fasten securely so as to keep it together. Put it in a baking-pan, with one pint of water. Season the fish with salt, pepper, (30) The New Kentucky Home Cook Booh 31 and butter; dredge it well with flour

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