Sprats, Citizen Style

Ingredients

• sprats
• a quarter of a pound of bread-crumbs
• a teaspoonful of fine herbs
• a little nutmeg
• salt
• pepper
• half a pint of good stock
• pats of butter the size of a nut

Method

1. 1

   Prepare sprats, butter a baking dish.

2. 2

   Mix herbs, nutmeg, salt, pepper, and bread-crumbs.

3. 3

   Layer in the dish with sprats and bread-crumb mixture, moisten with stock, top with remaining bread-crumbs and butter.

4. 4

   Bake for half an hour and squeeze lemon juice before serving.

As published

This recipe was extracted from Practical household cookery (1891) by E. Duret, page 94. The excerpt below is the record exactly as published.

SPRATS, CITIZEN STYLE. Prepare the sprats in the usual way ; butter a baking- dish ; mix well in a basin a teaspoouful of fine herbs, a little nutmeg, salt, pepper, and a quarter of a pound of bread-crumbs; strew the bottom of the baking-dish with this mixture, then arrange a layer of sprats, sprinkle on these some of the bread-crumb mixture, and so on, for throe layers of sprats ; moisten with half a pint of good stock, sprinkle the remainder of the bread-crumbs over, put on the top a few pats of butter the size of a nut

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