Baked Halibut

Ingredients

• slices of halibut
• a cupful of white wine
• same of water
• a tablespoonful of Worcestershire sauce
• a lemon cut in thin slices
• a tablespoonful of butter
• rolled in a little flour

Method

1. 1

   Put halibut in a baking dish with wine, water, butter, salt, and cayenne.

2. 2

   Bake in the oven.

3. 3

   For sauce, blanch onions, combine with shrimp, wine, water, salt, cayenne, Worcestershire sauce, and lemon.

4. 4

   Cook for 10 minutes, add butter and flour, boil, then stir in egg yolks.

5. 5

   Pour sauce over fish and serve.

As published

This recipe was extracted from High living (1904) by Linie Loyall McLaren,, page 7. The excerpt below is the record exactly as published.

BAKED HALIBUT — Put slices of halibut into a baking-dish; add a little white wine and water, small pieces of butter and salt and a very little cayenne. Place in the oven and bake in a fire-proof baking-dish. For the sauce, blanch some finely chopped young onions, put them in a saucepan with an equal amount of shrimps, add a cupful of white wine and same of water, salt and cayenne, a tablespoonful of Worces- tershire sauce and a lemon cut in thin slices. Cook gently for ten minutes, then add a tablespoonful of butter rolled in a little flour

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