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Kippered Mackerel Fines Herbes

From Paper-bag cookery, 1911
Presented as published in 1911. 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 Paper-bag cookery (1911) by Nicolas Soyer, page 27. The excerpt below is the record exactly as published.

Kippered Mackerel Fines Herbes. — Place the fillets of mackerel in a deep, clean dish. Just cover them with boiling water. Leave for an instant. Take out and dry. Dust well with coarse black pepper and put on top of each fillet half a teaspoonful of minced chives and parsley (or finely-minced onion failing chives) and a bit of butter the size of a small walnut

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