To Bake Fish

Ingredients

• Wash and dry the fish
• one dessert-spoonful of butter
• one salt-spoonful of salt
• half inch deep water
• strips of pork
• dredge fish with flour

Method

1. 1

   Wash and dry fish.

2. 2

   Gash fish and lay in strips of pork.

3. 3

   Place in pan with water, butter, and salt.

4. 4

   Dredge with flour and baste often.

As published

This recipe was extracted from The cooking garden (1885) by Emily Huntington, page 29. The excerpt below is the record exactly as published.

TO BAKE FISH. Wash and dry on a towel. Gash fish straight across, half inch deep and two inches long, and one inch apart, and lay in strips of pork. Place in pan, and cover the bottom with water half inch deep ; add one dessert-spoonful of butter and one salt-spoonful of salt. Dredge fish with flour, and baste often. Keep up your supply of gravy as it boils away. Try with a knitting-needle, and take up with a cake-turner. DRAWN BUTTER OR SAUCE FOR FISH. Half cup of butter, half table-spoonful of flour, one salt-spoonful of salt, one hard-boiled egg, half cup of boiling water or milk. Cut up egg in sauce-tureen, mix butter, flour, and salt to a cream, moisten LESSON EIGHTH. 123 with hot water ; add this to the half cup of boiling water in saucepan over fire. Let it cook till it thickens smoothly. When ready to serve, pour it over the chopped ^^g, stir together, and add small bits of parsley. Recapitulation of Fish Lesson. TO BROIL FISH. 1 We scrape and wipe the fish carefully. 2 We heat the platter. 3 We put butter, salt, and pepper on the platter, and leave it in a warm place. 4 We warm the gridiron, and put the fish upon it. 5 We lay the gridiron over the coals, the flesh side of the fish down. 6 We stand by until it is a nice brown. 7 We then turn the skin side down. 8 When cooked, we lay it on the platter, and baste it with the salt, pepper, and butter. 9 We cover with a hot platter until served. We lay it on the platter skin side down. Now it is finished. TO BOIL FISH. 1 We wash the fish and rub it over with a little vinegar. 2 We sew it into a piece of cloth, fitting the shape as nearly as possible. 3 We cover it with salted boiling water, in which put one small teaspoonful of vinegar. 4 We let it boil ten minutes to every pound. 5 We try it with a knitting-needle ; if it runs through easily it is done. 6 We raise it from the pot by the cloth, and lay it on an inverted sieve. 7 We prepare the platter to receive the fish by folding a napkin, the size of the fish, upon it. 8 We rip open the cloth, and slip it on the platter prepared for it. Now it is finished. 124 L£SSON EIGHTH. TO BAKE FISH. 1 We wash and dry the fish

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