Baked Fish with Milk Sauce

Ingredients

• a pint of milk
• a level table-spoonful of flour
• a large table-spoonful of butter
• one-eighth of a teaspoonful of pepper

Method

1. 1

   Soak the fish overnight in cold water.

2. 2

   In the morning, lay it in a shallow baking-pan and pour milk over it.

3. 3

   Bake for twenty minutes, stirring in flour, butter, and pepper at the end of fifteen minutes.

4. 4

   Transfer the fish to a warm platter and pour the sauce over it.

As published

This recipe was extracted from Miss Parloa's kitchen companion (1887) by Maria Parloa, page 103. The excerpt below is the record exactly as published.

a pint of milk over it. Bake for twenty minutes in a moderately hot oven, stirring into the milk, at the end of a quarter of an hour, a level table-spoonful of flour, a large table-spoonful of butter, and one-eighth of a tea- spoonful of pepper, all rubbed together till a smooth paste is formed. At serving-time, carefully transfer the fish to a warm platter, and pour the sauce over it. * Spiced Salmon. Free of skin and bones any salmon left from a dinner, and put it into a deep dish or a bowl. Next prepare a FISH. 201 marinade, allowing for each pint of fish the following- named ingredients : a gill of vinegar, two table-spoonfuls of lemon juice, two cloves, a small piece of stick cinna- mon, a bay leaf, a teaspoonful of salt, and one-eighth of a teaspoonful of pepper

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