Baked Sea Bass

Ingredients

• the fish
• 2 pressed cupfuls of bread crumbs
• a small cupful of butter
• rind of a quarter of lemon
• parsely
• green thyme
• marjoram
• pepper and salt
• two eggs
• a spoonful of water

Method

1. 1

   Stuff the fish with the mixture of bread crumbs, butter, lemon, herbs, and eggs.

2. 2

   Sew up the fish, mark it for carving, and bake in a pan with stock and seasoning for 30-40 minutes.

3. 3

   Prepare sauce from the pan drippings.

As published

This recipe was extracted from Cooking for profit (1886) by Jessup Whitehead, page 52. The excerpt below is the record exactly as published.

Baked Sea Bass. Scale and clean the fish; leave the head on if it ii to be sent to table whole. Make a stuffing for it of 2 pressed cupfuls of bread crumbs, a small cupful of but-| ter, rind of a quarter of lemon minced fine, parsely, green thyme and marjoram, and pepper and salt, and two egga

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