Soles a la Menuisiere

Ingredients

• a sole
• half a tablespoonful of salt
• chopped onions
• dip it in flour
• two ounces of fresh butter
• the juice of a lemon
• a little cayenne pepper

Method

1. 1

   Cut the fins off a sole, make four incisions across it on each side, rub in salt and chopped onions, dip in flour, and broil over a slow fire.

2. 2

   Mix fresh butter with lemon juice and cayenne pepper, rub over the sole in a hot dish, turn it over once or twice, put it in the oven for a minute, and serve hot.

As published

This recipe was extracted from The housewife's referee (1898) by Harriet Anne de Salis, University of Leeds Library, page 82. The excerpt below is the record exactly as published.

Soles a la Menuisiere. — Cut the fins off a sole, and with a knife make four incisions across it on each side ; then rub well into it half a tablespoonful of salt and chopped onions ; dip it in flour and broil over a slow fire. Have ready two ounces of fresh butter, mixed with the juice of a lemon and a little cayenne pepper

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