How to Clean and Boil Fish
Ingredients
Directions
Lay the fish flat on its side on a board or flat stone.
Hold the fish by the head and shoulders with your left hand.
Scrape off all scales and slime with your right hand.
Repeat the scraping on the other side.
Cut off the fins.
Use a pump or hose to remove any remaining scales or slime.
Open the fish and carefully extract the intestines.
Scrape out any blood from the backbone.
Wash the fish thoroughly with clean water.
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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