Whiting an Gratin

Ingredients

• Have the whitings skinned
• with a tablespoonful of chopped onions
• four tablespoonfuls of brown sauce
• twelve tablespoonfuls more of brown sauce
• a teaspoonful of chopped mushrooms
• one ditto chopped parsley
• a little pepper
• salt
• and sugar

Method

1. 1

   Butter a sauté pan, add fish with onions and brown sauce, sprinkle with bread crumbs and butter, bake for half an hour.

2. 2

   Dress on a dish, add more sauce, season, and serve.

Nutrition per serving

As published

This recipe was extracted from The thorough good cook (1895) by George Augustus Sala, page 100. The excerpt below is the record exactly as published.

Whiting an Gratin. Have the whitino-s skinned, Avitli their tails turned into their inouths ; butter a saute-pan, and put in the fish, with a tablespoon ful of chopped onions and four table- spoonfuls of brown sauce over each ; sprinkle bread-crumbs over them, and a little clarified butter, and put them in a moderate oven half an hour ; take them out and dress them on a dish Avithout a napkin ; then put twelve tablespoonfids more of brown sauce into a saute-pan, with a tcaspoonful of FISH. 165 chopped miisliroonis, one ditto chopped parsley, one ditto essence of anchovy, a httle pepper, salt, and sugar

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