Name: Boiled Fish
Ingredients: fish; coarse sea salt; water

Boiled Fish

Ingredients

fish
coarse sea salt
water

Directions

Prepare

Wrap the fish in a cloth and tie it with twine.
Cover the fish with cold water and add plenty of coarse sea salt.

Cook and serve

Boil for 30 minutes to 1 hour, depending on the size of the fish.
Place the fish on a hot dish and garnish as desired.

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

Fish: Is the main ingredient that is cooked whole by gentle boiling.
Coarse sea salt: Seasons the cooking water so the fish is flavoured as it cooks.

“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.