Baked Salt Mackerel

Ingredients

• a salt mackerel
• one pint of milk
• one tablespoon of flour
• one tablespoon of butter
• a sprinkling of pepper

Method

1. 1

   Wash a salt mackerel well and soak it over night in cold water, laying it with the skin side upward.

2. 2

   In the morning lay fish on its back in a shallow baking tin not too large for the fish, and pour over it one pint of milk.

3. 3

   Bake twenty-five minutes in a hot oven, stirring into the milk at the end of twenty minutes one tablespoon each of flour and butter, and a sprinkling of pepper, all rubbed together in a smooth paste.

4. 4

   Serve with the thickened milk poured around the fish.

As published

This recipe was extracted from The Toronto Cook Book (1915) by Powell, E. J. Mrs.,d.b. 1853, page 126. The excerpt below is the record exactly as published.

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