Stewed Fish

Ingredients

• Two pounds cod fish
• two ounces clarified fat
• one large table-spoonful of chopped parsley
• one ounce flour
• one tea-spoonful of salt
• one salt-spoonful of pepper
• three gills milk or water

Method

1. 1

   Wash and slice the fish.

2. 2

   Melt clarified fat, add flour, and mix.

3. 3

   Gradually add milk or water, stirring until boiling.

4. 4

   Add salt, pepper, and fish pieces.

5. 5

   Simmer covered for ten minutes, then add parsley and cook for two more minutes.

Nutrition per serving

Estimated from matched ingredients across 3 servings.

As published

This recipe was extracted from Handbook of practical cookery (1886) by Matilda Lees Dods, page 175. The excerpt below is the record exactly as published.

STEWED FISH. 271 boiling, add the pepper, and draw the pan from the fire. At the end of twenty minutes take the fish from the water, remove all bone and skin, and place the fish in rough pieces in the sauce-pan, with the flour, dripping, and milk. Return the pan to the fire, and let all simmer slowly for five minutes. Baked Fish. — One large plaice or flounder, one table- spoonful chopped parsley, two table-spoonfuls bread crumbs, two ounces dripping, one tea-spoonful salt, one half tea- spoonful pepper. Place in a small baking-tin half of the bread crumbs, dripping, parsley, pepper, and salt. Wash well the fish, clean it and cut off the fins ; place it over the bread crumbs on the tin, sprinkle over the remainder of the parsley, bread crumbs, pepper, and salt. Place the remainder of the dripping over in very small pieces. Place the tin in rather a quick oven for half an hour. Lift the fish very carefully, and place it on a very hot flat dish, when it is ready for use. Baked Fish.— Two pounds cod fish, four table-spoonfuls of bread crumbs, two table-spoonfuls of flour, one half pint milk, one tea-spoonful salt, one salt-spoonful pepper, one table-spoonful of vinegar. "Wash the fish well, cut off the fins, and cut it in slices about half an inch thick. Place in a pie-dish half of the bread crumbs and half the pepper and salt. Place over the bread crumbs the slices of fish, and pour over the fish the vinegar. Sprinkle over the remainder of the bread crumbs, pepper, and salt. Place now the flour in a basin, and moisten it with two or three table-spoonfuls of milk. Add the remainder of the milk, and stir all till the flour is quite smooth. Pour the milk and flour over the fish and bread crumbs, and place the pie-dish in a quick oven for half an hour. Stewed Fish. — Two pounds cod fish, two ounces clarified fat, one large table-spoonful of chopped parsley, one ounce 272 SIMPLE BREAKFAST DISHES. flour, one tea-spoonful of salt, one salt-spoonful of pepper, three gills milk or water

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