Name: Boiled Mackerel
Ingredients: 2 small mackerel; drawn butter

Boiled Mackerel

Ingredients

2 small mackerel
drawn butter

Directions

Prepare

Clean the mackerel by removing the insides at the vent.
Wrap each mackerel in a separate cloth.

Cook and serve

Boil the mackerel for 20 minutes.
Serve with drawn butter.

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

Mackerel: Forms the main body of the dish, providing the flesh that is cooked and served.
Drawn butter: Adds richness and moisture to the mild fish when served alongside it.

“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.