Name: To Boil Trout
Ingredients: a handful of salt into the water

To Boil Trout

Ingredients

a handful of salt into the water

Directions

Put a handful of salt into the water. When it boils put in the trout. Boil them fast about twenty minutes, according to their size.
For sauce, send with them melted butter, and put some soy into it; or flavour it with catchup.

By Eliza Leslie. Recipe from a historical cookbook (Project Gutenberg).

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. See the original page.