To Dress Salt Mackerel

Ingredients

• in a pan of cold water
• put bits of butter in the pan
• sprinkle with pepper

Method

1. 1

   Take mackerel from salt, lay inside down in cold water for two or three days, change water once or twice, scrape clean.

2. 2

   When fresh enough, wipe dry and fry or broil, or cover with hot water and cook over gentle fire for twelve to fifteen minutes.

As published

This recipe was extracted from The housekeeper's companion (1883), page 81. The excerpt below is the record exactly as published.

To Dress Salt Mackerel. — Take mackerel from the salt, and lay them inside downward in a pan of cold water for two or three days, change the water once or twice, and scrape the fish clean without breaking it. When fresh enough, wipe one dry and hang it in a cool place; then fry or broil, or lay one in a shallow pan, the inside of the fish down; cover it with hot water^ and set it over a gentle fire or in an orea for twelve or 122 HOUSEHOLD. fifteen minutes; then pour off the water, turn the fish, put bits of butter in the pan, and over the fish, sprinkle with pepper

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