Ling, Baked

Ingredients

• four pounds of ling
• two tea-spoonfuls of salt
• half a tea-spoonful of white pepper
• half a tea-spoonful of pounded mace
• three ounces of fresh butter
• a tablespoonful of flour
• half a pint of milk

Method

1. 1

   Cut the ling into slices and place in a baking-dish.

2. 2

   Dredge with flour and sprinkle with salt, white pepper, and mace.

3. 3

   Divide butter into small pieces and place on fish.

4. 4

   Rub flour into milk, pour over fish, and bake in a moderate oven for one hour.

5. 5

   Serve hot, garnished with toasted sippets.

As published

This recipe was extracted from Cassell's dictionary of cookery (1892) by Cassell & Company, page 847. The excerpt below is the record exactly as published.

Ling, Baked.— Cut four pounds of Hng into slices, and put these into a baking-dish. Dredge well with flour, and sprinkle over them two tea-spoonfuls of salt, half a tea.- spoonful of white pepper, and haK a tea-spoon- ful of pounded mace. Divide three ounces of fresh butter into small pieces, and place these here and there upon the fish. Eub a table- spoonful of flour smoothly into haK a pint of milk; pour this over the fish, and bake in a moderate oven. Serve on a hot dish, and garnish with toasted sippets. Time to bais,, one hour. Probable co'st, Is. 8d. Sufficient; for half a dozen persons. Ling, Fried.— Take two pounds of fresh ling, cut it into sHccs three-quarters of an inch thick, rub these over with pepper and salt, dredge a little flour over them, and after- wards egg and bread-crumb them, and fry in boiling fat. Parsley and butter, or lemon "and LIN ( 382 ) LIT liver sauce may be served with them. Time to fry, ten minutes. Probable cost, lOd. Suf- ficient for three persons. Ling Pie. — Take three or four pounds of the thin part of a salt ling-, wash it in two or thi-ee waters, and let it soak for a couple of hours ; then j^ut it into a fish-kettle, with as much water as will cover it, and let it boil slowly until done enough. Take off the skin, and put layers of the fish into a pie-dish, with four hard-boiled eggs cut into slices, a Httle cho^^ped parsley, two tea-spoonfuls of salt, half a tea- spoonful of cayenne, and half a tea-spoonful of pounded mace

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