Weakfish Baked

Ingredients

• a 3-pound fresh fish
• 1 tablespoonful seasoning salt
• 1 large onion
• 1 lemon
• 4 thin slices of pork
• 1 1/2 ounce butter
• 1 ounce melted butter

Method

1. 1

   Season the fish with salt and lemon juice, place onion slices inside, and let stand for 1 hour.

2. 2

   Lay pork in a roasting pan, remove onions, place fish on top, add butter inside and melted butter over.

3. 3

   Bake until done, basting occasionally.

4. 4

   Serve with fried tomatoes, mustard sauce, and boiled potatoes.

Nutrition per serving

Estimated from matched ingredients across 4 servings.

As published

This recipe was extracted from European and American cuisine (1914) by Lemcke, Mrs. Gesine Knubel, page 142. The excerpt below is the record exactly as published.

eakflsh^ Baked. — Glean, wash, and wipe a 3-ponnd freah fish, season it with 1 tablespoonful seasoning salt, sprinkle over the jnioe of 1 lemon, cut 1 large onion into slices, and lay them inside the fish ; cover and let it stand 1 hour. Forty minutes before serv- ing lay 4 thin slices of pork in the bottom of a roasting pan, remove the onions, and place the fish on top of the pork. Lay iVs ounce butter inside the fish, and pour 1 ounce melted butter all over; cover the top of fish with i thin slices of larding pork, set the pan in a hot oven, and bake till done, basting occasionally with its own gravy. When done remove the fish carefully to a warm dish, garnish with fried tomatoes, serve with mustard sauce and boiled potatoes. Weakflsh^ Fried.— Procure a fresh fish of 2V, pounds, cleans wash, and split it through the back, remove head and tail, cut each half into 3 pieces, season them with 1 even tablespoonful seasoning salt, let lie V, hour, then roll the fish pieces in fiour, and fry in hot lard or larding pork, light brown on both sides and well done. Serve on a warm dish, garnish with parsley and cut lemon. Or dust the fish with fiour, then dip them first into beaten egg, then roll in cracker or bread crumbs, and finish the same as above. Fillets of Weakflsh. — Glean and wash a fresh fish of 2V9 pounds, remove head and tail, split the fish through the back, re- move all the bones, and cut the meat into 6 fillets ; season these with 1 even tablespoonful seasoning salt, sprinkle over the juice of Yt lemon, and set aside. Twenty minutes before serving wipe the fillets dry, dust with flour, dip into beaten egg, roll in bread crumbs ; lay the fillets on a clean board, and pat them smooth with a knife. Place a frying pan with 1 ounce pure lard and 1 ounce butter over the fire ; as soon as hot put in as many fillets as will conveniently go in, fry light brown on both sides, adding more lard and butter if neces- sary. Arrange the fish on a hot dish, spread over 1 ounce maftre d'hdtel butter, and serve with potatoes & la crdme. Weakflsh h la Tartare. — Bemove the fillets from a 3- pound fresh fish

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