To Bake Cod, or Haddock

Ingredients

• the middle piece of the fish
• a piece of butter
• the yolks of two hard-boiled eggs
• some grated bread-crumbs
• pepper
• salt
• grated lemon-peel
• nutmeg
• bind this with the beaten white of an egg

Method

1. 1

   Take the middle piece of the fish, skin it, and make a stuffing with the roe, butter, yolks of hard-boiled eggs, bread-crumbs, pepper, salt, lemon-peel, and nutmeg.

2. 2

   Bind with beaten egg white, stuff into the fish, sew it up, place in a tin dish with butter on top, and bake for an hour in a Dutch oven, turning and basting frequently.

3. 3

   Garnish with fried roe or oysters.

As published

This recipe was extracted from The thorough good cook (1895) by George Augustus Sala, page 97. The excerpt below is the record exactly as published.

To Bake Cod, or Haddock. Take the middle piece of the fish, and skin it ; make a stuffing with a little of the roe parboiled, a piece of butter, the yolks of two hard-boiled eggs, some grated bread-crumbs, pepper, salt, grated lemon-peel, and nutmeg : bind this with the beaten white of an egg

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