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Dinner of the Raw Head of a Large Halibut

A dish served raw using a halibut head, with cheeks cut and served to chief and attendants.

From an old cookbook · modernised transcription
From a historical cookbook (Internet Archive) · 2 ingredients
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Dinner of the Raw Head of a Large Halibut

Ingredients

Directions

Prepare

  1. Remove the gills from the halibut head and wash it in the sea.

  2. Place some grass on a flat surface and lay the halibut head on it.

Serve

  1. Cut large pieces from the cheeks of the head and serve them to the chief.

  2. After the chief has eaten, cut the remaining head into pieces for the attendants.

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

Halibut head
Forms the whole dish; its cheeks are the richest pieces and are served first.

“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.

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