Baked Fish (Cod)

Ingredients

• Two pounds cod fish
• four table-spoonfuls of bread crumbs
• two table-spoonfuls of flour
• one half pint milk
• one tea-spoonful salt
• one salt-spoonful pepper
• one table-spoonful of vinegar

Method

1. 1

   Wash and slice the fish.

2. 2

   Layer half of the bread crumbs and half of the seasoning in a pie-dish.

3. 3

   Place fish slices, pour vinegar over, and top with remaining crumbs and seasoning.

4. 4

   Mix flour with milk, pour over, and bake in a quick oven for half an hour.

Nutrition per serving

Estimated from matched ingredients across 2 servings.

As published

This recipe was extracted from Handbook of practical cookery (1886) by Matilda Lees Dods, page 174. The excerpt below is the record exactly as published.

one half pint milk, one gill water, one salt-spoonful pepper. Soak the fish over night in a large basin of cold water ; take it from the water, place it in a sauce-pan and cover it with fresh water. Place the pan by the side of the fire and let the water heat up very slowly till boiling, then boil slowly twenty minutes. Melt in a separate sauce-pan the dripping, add the flour, and stir till well mixed; add then the water by degrees, then the milk also by degrees ; stir till BAKED FISH — STEWED FISH. 271 boiling, add the pepper, and draw the pan from the fire. At the end of twenty minutes take the fish from the water, remove all bone and skin, and place the fish in rough pieces in the sauce-pan, with the flour, dripping, and milk. Return the pan to the fire, and let all simmer slowly for five minutes. Baked Fish. — One large plaice or flounder, one table- spoonful chopped parsley, two table-spoonfuls bread crumbs, two ounces dripping, one tea-spoonful salt, one half tea- spoonful pepper. Place in a small baking-tin half of the bread crumbs, dripping, parsley, pepper, and salt. Wash well the fish, clean it and cut off the fins ; place it over the bread crumbs on the tin, sprinkle over the remainder of the parsley, bread crumbs, pepper, and salt. Place the remainder of the dripping over in very small pieces. Place the tin in rather a quick oven for half an hour. Lift the fish very carefully, and place it on a very hot flat dish, when it is ready for use. Baked Fish.— Two pounds cod fish, four table-spoonfuls of bread crumbs, two table-spoonfuls of flour, one half pint milk, one tea-spoonful salt, one salt-spoonful pepper, one table-spoonful of vinegar

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