Name: To Bake Shad
Ingredients: 1 whole shad, cleaned and stuffed; Gravy for serving

To Bake Shad

Ingredients

1 whole shad, cleaned and stuffed
Gravy for serving

Directions

The book gives no oven temperature. The 350°F (175°C) in the steps was added when the recipe was transcribed, as a starting point.

Prepare

Preheat the oven to 350°F (175°C).
Lay the fish in a deep pan with its tail towards its mouth.

Bake and serve

Bake for two hours.
Pour gravy around the fish before serving.

Recipe from a historical cookbook (Internet Archive).

Transcribed from a scanned cookbook and modernised for today's kitchens. Where the book gave no heat or time, or said "a moderate oven", the temperatures and times here may be modern equivalents rather than the book's own figures.

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What each ingredient does

Shad: Forms the main body of the dish, and its flesh cooks through during the long, gentle bake.
Gravy: Adds moisture and savory flavor to the fish as it is served.

“What each ingredient does” and “The step that matters” were written by Claude from this recipe’s own method and reviewed in samples by CompKitchen.