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To Dress Bass or Sheep's-head

From Virginia Cookery-book, 1884

Serves 4

Smaller fish can be dressed similarly.

Presented as published in 1884. Historical recipes may not meet modern food-safety standards. Cook from the modern interpretation below, not the original instructions.

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As published

This recipe was extracted from Virginia Cookery-book (1884) by Mary Stuart Smith, page 37. The excerpt below is the record exactly as published.

To Dress Bass ob Shbbp's-head. Take a bass or sheep's-head eighteen or twenty inches long, put it into a pan, place that in a Dutch oven, add half a pint of tomato catsup, a large spoonful of butter, half a pint of water, salt, black and red pepper to suit your taste

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