Baked Whitings

Ingredients

• Butter a dish
• some finely chopped parsley
• a little onion
• salt
• a little nutmeg
• the whitings (boned whitings are preferable)
• equal quantities of white wine
• and stock
• add some butter
• and flour
• add pepper
• some lemon-juice

Method

1. 1

   Butter a dish and spread finely chopped parsley, onion, salt, and nutmeg on it.

2. 2

   Place the boned whitings, pour hot butter, white wine, and stock over them.

3. 3

   Cook in the oven, turning the fish halfway.

4. 4

   Pour the sauce into a saucepan, add butter and flour, simmer until thick, then add pepper and lemon juice.

5. 5

   Serve the sauce over the fish.

As published

This recipe was extracted from Wholesome cookery (1887) by Marie de Joncourt, page 12. The excerpt below is the record exactly as published.

Baked Whitings. Butter a dish ; spread on this butter some finely chopped parsley, and a little onion, salt, and a little nutmeg ; then place the whitings (boned whitings are preferable). Pour some hot butter over them, then equal quantities of white wine and stock. Put this dish in the oven, or on the top of your stove, with a cover over. When half cooked, turn the fish over carefully. When quite cooked, pour the sauce into a saucepan without disturbing the fish ; add some butter and fiour ; simmer till thick, then add pepper and some lemon-juice

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