Boiled John Dory with Cream Sauce

Ingredients

• the fish
• a lump of salt
• 1 pint of thick cream
• 4oz. of butter
• the juice of a lemon
• salt and pepper

Method

1. 1

   Clean the fish and boil in salted water.

2. 2

   For the sauce, heat cream, mix in butter until melted, add lemon juice, and season.

3. 3

   Strain the fish, place on a hot dish, garnish with parsley, and serve with the sauce.

As published

This recipe was extracted from The encyclopaedia of practical cookery (1892) by Theodore Francis Garrett, William A. Rawson, page 168. The excerpt below is the record exactly as published.

Boiled John Dory with Cream Sauce. — Clean the fish, put it in a fish-kettle with plenty of hot water and a lump of salt, and boil. Pour J pint of thick cream into a small saucepan, set it over the fire till just on the point of boiling, and then mix 4oz. of butter with it. Stir the sauce or shake the saucepan till the butter is melted, squeeze in the juice of a lemon, keeping back the pips, and season with salt and pepper

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