Baked Shad

Ingredients

• a large fresh shad
• 1 heaping tablespoonful salt
• the juice of 1 lemon
• 4 thin slices of larding pork
• 2 ounces of melted butter

Method

1. 1

   Prepare the shad for baking, season with salt and lemon juice, let it sit for 30 minutes.

2. 2

   Place pork in a baking pan, the fish on top, pour melted butter over, and lay more pork on top.

3. 3

   Bake in a medium-hot oven for about 40 minutes.

4. 4

   Serve garnished with parsley and lemon, with melted butter, mustard, or egg sauce.

Nutrition per serving

Estimated from matched ingredients across 6 servings.

As published

This recipe was extracted from European and American cuisine (1914) by Lemcke, Mrs. Gesine Knubel, page 133. The excerpt below is the record exactly as published.

a large fresh shad prepared for baking, season with 1 heaping tablespoonf ul salt and the juice of 1 lemon, let it lay 30 minutes ; then put 4 thin slices of larding pork in a baking pan, the fish on top, pour 2 ounces of melted butter over, and lay three thin slices of pork on top the fish. Place the pan in a medium-hot oven and bake till done — about 40 minutes. When done, remove it carefully to a warm dish, garnish with parsley and 1 lemon cut lengthwise into 6 pieces; serve with melted butter, mustard, or egg sauce. Shad^ Baked^ with Filling. — Soak 2 slices of bread in cold water 10 minutes, inclose in a towel, and press out all the water. Place a saucepan with 1 tablespoonf ul butter over the fire, add 2 tablespoonf uls fine-chopped onion, a little bruised garlic the size of a pea, cook and stir 5 minutes; add Y, cupful fine-chopped mush- rooms and the bread, continue stirring until the bread has formed into a smooth paste, then remove from fire. When cold mix it with Ys pound fine-chopped halibut, season with 1 teaspoonful salt^ Ya teaspoonful pepper, and 1 egg ; mix all well together. Split a well-cleaned shad down the back, remove the roe and backbone, wash and wipe the fish dry, rubbing in and outside with 1 heaping tablespoonful salt

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