Baked Shad
Ingredients
Directions
Prepare
Cut the shad to remove the roe, then wash the fish.
Prepare a dressing by mixing the cracker crumbs, salt, and pepper thoroughly.
Fill the body of the fish with the dressing.
Bake
Bake the shad until cooked through.
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
- Cracker crumbs
- Absorb moisture and give the dressing body so it holds its shape inside the fish.
“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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