Baked Halibut with Egg Sauce

Ingredients

• Put a layer of thin slices of salted pork
• put the piece of fresh halibut
• salting it slightly on the outside
• add a little hot water
• bake in moderate oven 1/2 of an hour
• the white of a hard-cooked egg chopped fine
• crumble yolk of egg on top

Method

1. 1

   Bake the halibut in a moderate oven for 30 minutes, basting occasionally.

2. 2

   Prepare white sauce, add salt and chopped egg white.

3. 3

   Pour sauce over fish, crumble yolk on top.

As published

This recipe was extracted from Efficiency in home-making and first-aid to good cooking (1915) by Robertson, Georgia, page 64. The excerpt below is the record exactly as published.

BAKED HALIBUT WITH EGG SAUCE. Put a layer of thin slices of salted pork in bottom of roasting pan ; put the piece of fresh halibut on this, salt- ing it slightly on the outside, put thin 'slices of the pork on top, add a little hot water ; bake in moderate oven ^ of an hour basting occasionally. Have white sauce ready, add a little salt and the white of a hard-cooked egg chopped fine. Put fish on platter, pour sauce over, crumble yolk of egg on top

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