Sardines in a Hurry

Ingredients

• the sardines out of the box
• thin strips of hot buttered toast
• a squeeze of lemon juice

Method

1. 1

   Carefully take sardines from the box, pour boiling water over them, drain, remove skin, bones, and tails.

2. 2

   Place on toast, season, pour melted butter and lemon juice over, and heat in the Chafing Dish for five minutes.

As published

This recipe was extracted from The cult of the chafing dish (1904) by Frank Schloesser, page 20. The excerpt below is the record exactly as published.

Sardines in a Hurry. Sardines are one of the handiest of standbys for the Chafist. But get the best brands and smallish fish ; the large ones are apt to sug- gest pilchards, which, although good in their way, are not sardines. Sardines in a Hurry are done thusly : Take the sardines out of the box carefully on to a plate, pour boiling water over them, and drain it off at once. Take off all the skin, bone them, and cut off the tails. Prepare thin strips of hot buttered toast, put a sardine on each strip, pepper and salt it, pour over it a modicum of plain melted butter and a squeeze of lemon juice

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