Whitefish Steamed

Ingredients

• After cleaning the fish
• salt it
• a teacupful of butter
• two tablespoonfuls of flour
• one pint of boiling water
• two hard-boiled eggs chopped fine

Method

1. 1

   After cleaning the fish, salt it and wrap it in a clean white cloth and steam one hour.

2. 2

   Dressing: Take a teacupful of butter, two tablespoonfuls of flour, and stir to a cream.

3. 3

   Pour over this one pint of boiling water and let it come to a boil.

4. 4

   Stir in two hard-boiled eggs chopped fine, pour the dressing over the fish and serve.

As published

This recipe was extracted from Temperance cook book (1887) by Mary G. Smith, page 11. The excerpt below is the record exactly as published.

WHITEFISH STEAMED. After cleaning the fish, salt it and wrap it in a clean white cloth and steam one hour. Dressing: Take a teacupful of butter, two tablespoonfuls of flour, and stir to a cream. Pour over this one pint of boiling water and let it come to a boil. Stir in two hard- boiled eggs chopped fine

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