Boiled Fish

Ingredients

• a small salmon or the middle cut of a large one
• Hub well with salt
• one or two tablespoonfuls of lemon juice
• boiling salted water
• Allow about six minutes to a pound for boiling

Method

1. 1

   Clean the fish, remove head and tail, rub with salt and lemon juice.

2. 2

   Boil in salted water until flesh separates easily from bones.

3. 3

   Serve on a folded napkin with sauce.

Nutrition per serving

Estimated from matched ingredients across 2 servings.

As published

This recipe was extracted from Mrs. Lincoln's Boston cook book (1884) by Lincoln, Mary Johnson Bailey "Mrs. D. A. Lincoln,", page 101. The excerpt below is the record exactly as published.

Boiled Fish. Boiling is the most insipid and wasteful way of cooking fish. To make boiled fish palatable, a rich sauce, like lobster, oyster, or shrimp sauce, is needed for all kinds except salmon and blue-fish. Salmon is so much richer and more oily than other fish that boiling does not injure it. Hollandaise and sauce pi qu ante are appropriate for salmon. A fish kettle with a drainer for lifting out the fish is quite essential. Or 3'ou may put a small piece of fish in a wire basket or on a plate ; tie the plate in a square of cloth, and lift clotii, plate, and fish together. Never try to boil a fish whole, as nothing can be more The Boston Cook Book. 167 unsightly than the head of a boiled fish. Clean the fish thoroughly, and remove the head, tail, and skin. Hub well with salt and lemon juice. Fish should be of uniform thickness, to boil nicely. A small salmon or the middle cut of a large one^ or the thickest part of cod or hlue-jish^ or a thick piece of halibut^ should be selected for boiling. Cod, haddock, and cusk, unless perfectly fresh, will break in boiUng. If fish be put into cold water, the juices are drawn out into tlie water. If cooked in rapidly boiling water, the fish breaks on the outside before the middle is done. The best and most economical way is to cook it in a steamer over boiling water. If that is not convenient, put the fish into boiling salted water, and simmer till done. Fish is cooked when the flesh separates easily from the bones, and should be taken up immediately, and well drained be- fore serving. A very good way of boiling fish is to steep it for five minutes in strongly salted boiling water, with one or. two tablespponfuls of lemon juice, then plunge it into fresh boiling water without salt, and simmer till done. Less scum rises in the fresh water, and the fish looks whiter. Allow about six minutes to a pound for boiling

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