Baked Halibut with Lobster Sauce

Ingredients

• 3-pound slice halibut
• 1 sprig parsley
• 1 slice onion
• 2 slices carrot, cut in pieces
• Bit of bay leaf
• 4 cup butter

Method

1. 1

   Cut gashes in top of fish, insert a narrow strip of fat salt pork in each gash.

2. 2

   Place on fish sheet in dripping pan, sprinkle with salt and pepper, and dredge with flour.

3. 3

   Cover bottom of pan with water, add parsley, onion, carrot cut in pieces, and bay leaf.

4. 4

   Bake 50 minutes in moderate oven (350° F.), basting with butter and liquor in pan.

5. 5

   Serve with Lobster Sauce.

As published

This recipe was extracted from Boston Cooking-School cook book (1896) by Fannie Merritt Farmer, Lincoln, Mary Johnson Bailey "Mrs. D. A. Lincoln,", James B. Herndon , Herndon/Vehling Collection, Sam Sloan, D. A. Lincoln, page 89. The excerpt below is the record exactly as published.

BAKED HALIBUT With Lobster Sauce 3-pound slice halibut 1 sprig parsley Fat salt pork 1 slice onion Salt and pepper 2 slices carrot, cut in pieces Flour Bit of bay leaf 4 cup butter

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