Baked White Fish

Ingredients

• white fish
• stale bread
• a large onion
• two ounces of butter
• salt
• pepper
• a little parsley or sage
• the yolks of two well-beaten eggs

Method

1. 1

   Clean the fish, cut out the backbone, and stuff with a mixture of soaked bread, fried onion, butter, salt, pepper, parsley or sage, and beaten egg yolks.

2. 2

   Sew up the fish, rub with butter, and bake in a pan with hot water for an hour.

As published

This recipe was extracted from Original White House Cookbook (1887) by Hugo Ziemann, F. L. Gillette, Hugo Zimmerman, mrs gillette, page 29. The excerpt below is the record exactly as published.

two ounces of butter and roll it into small balls, dredge these with flour; put one-fourth of them in a sauce- pan, and as they begin to melt, whisk them; add the remainder, one at a time, until thoroughly smooth; while stirring, add a tablespoonful of lemon juice, half a tablespoonful of chopped parsley; pour into a hot sauce boat and serve. BAKED WHITE FISH. Thoroughly clean the fish ; cut off the head or not, as preferred ; cut out the backbone from the head to within two inches of the tail, and stuff with the following : Soak stale bread in water, squeeze dry ; cut in pieces a large onion, fry in butter, chop fine ; add the bread, two ounces of but- ter, salt, pepper and a little parsley or sage ; heat through, and when taken off the fire, add the yolks of two well-beaten eggs

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