Red Mullet
From Common-sense papers on cookery, 1880
Serve the fish in its paper.
Presented as published in 1880. Historical recipes may not meet modern food-safety standards. Cook from the modern interpretation below, not the original instructions.
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As published
This recipe was extracted from Common-sense papers on cookery (1880) by A. G. Payne, page 92. The excerpt below is the record exactly as published.
red mullet. First take a piece of white foolscap paper, and oil it all over, next chop up a tea- spoonful of capers fine, next cut up into slices about three ounces of butter, lay the slices on the paper, sprinkle half the chopped capers on it, pepper and salt
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