To Dress Poor-John and Buckorne

Ingredients

• Poor-John
• Onions
• Buckorne

Method

1. 1

   Put Poor-John into the Kettle in cold water and hang it over the fire; let it soak and stew without boiling for 3 hours in very hot water.

2. 2

   Then make it boil two or three walms.

3. 3

   Take out the backbone and put it to fry with Onions.

4. 4

   Buckorne must be watered a good hour before you put it to the fire.

5. 5

   Boil it till tender, then butter it as you do Ling, and add Eggs if desired.

As published

This recipe was extracted from The closet of Sir Kenelm Digby Knight opened (1910) by Sir Kenelm Digby, page 114. The excerpt below is the record exactly as published.

TO DRESS POOR-JOHN AND BUCKORN The way of dressing Poor-John, to make it very tender and good meat, is this. Put it into the Kettle in cold water, and so hang it over the fire ; and so let it soak and stew without boiling for 3 hours : but the water must be very hot. Then make it boil two or three walms. By this time it will be very tender and swelled up. Then take out the back-bone, and SIR KENELMS DIGBIS put it to fry with Onions. If you put it first into hot water (as ling and such salt fish,) or being boiled, if you let it cool, and heat it again it will be tough and hard. Buckorne

Cook this with the app: pantry check, scaling, and the assistant.