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Halibut Steak

From The Queen Cook Book: A Careful Compilation of Recipes and Practical ..., 1895

Serve with Hollandaise sauce.

Presented as published in 1895. Historical recipes may not meet modern food-safety standards. Cook from the modern interpretation below, not the original instructions.

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This recipe was extracted from The Queen Cook Book: A Careful Compilation of Recipes and Practical ... (1895) by William Hart Boyd, page 32. The excerpt below is the record exactly as published.

bits of butter on each layer, repeating till done. Fill jar with equal parts of vinegar and water. Tie on top a stiff writing paper and lay on top of that a stiff dough of flour and water. Bake from four to six hours. When cold slice. A Supper Dish. Select a three-pound fish, dress, salt and wrap in a thin cloth and boil or put in steamer, salt the water, cook thirty minutes. While this is boiling (if you wish it), boil four eggs hard, say eight minutes, drop them into cold water for one minute, so the yolk outside will not turn green. When cold separate the yolk and whites and chop each separately. Remove the fish to the center of a large platter. Place about four inches of the yolks and then four inches of the chopped whites alternately till you have encircled the fish. Wash and chop fine parsley enough to sprinkle over the whole. Cut lemons in two lengthwise, then cut each half in four pieces and lay around the fish, serving it with it, either hot or cold. Serve with creamed potatoes and spiced pickles. Broiled Fish. When fish are to be broiled they should be split down the back, leaving head and tail on. Wash and wipe dry, salt, grease the whole broiler with suet; place the fish flesh side dowD> which should always be cooked first and longer, on medium hot coals* When $4 The Queen Cook Book half cookea turn platter on, then turn platter and broi)<!ir over together, unless you have a double wire broiler; the skin side needs careful attention, as it burns easily. When done loosen carefully, so as not to breuk it, and slide onto platter inside up. Serve with pepper and butter. Salt Boiled Mackerel. Soak in tepid water twelve hours, changing the water once or twice according to saltness. Clean, wipe dry with a cloth. Wrap the fish in a cloth and boil slowly fifteen minutes. Drain from the water, pepper and butter it, set in oven three minutes, serve with bslked potatoes. Broiled Salt Mackerel. Is prepared in the same way, only broiled instead of boiling. Halibut Steak. Take a piece halibut an inch or more thick, rub in salt, butter the bottom of dripping pan, pepper it. Sprinkle with one tablespoon of lemon juice
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