Buttered Whiting

Ingredients

• 3 Whiting
• 1 li oz. Butter
• 1 Lemon
• Pepper and Salt

Method

1. 1

   Wash the whiting, dry them in a cloth, mix a little flour, pepper, and salt together, cover the fish thoroughly with this.

2. 2

   Butter a tin dish, lay the whiting in and put the rest of the butter over them in small pieces, and put them into a hot oven; baste constantly with the butter.

3. 3

   This must not be allowed to get black; it should be brown.

4. 4

   When the whiting are done, which will be in from fifteen to twenty minutes, according to the thickness of the fish, place them in a hot dish and pour the butter in which they have been cooked over them.

As published

This recipe was extracted from The art of living in Australia (1893) by Philip E. Muskett, page 195. The excerpt below is the record exactly as published.

BUTTERED WHITING. 3 Whiting .... Pepper and Salt li oz. Butter .... 1 Lemon

Cook this with the app: pantry check, scaling, and the assistant.