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Sole

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Sole

Ingredients

Directions

  1. Scale and gut the sole, removing the dark skin.

  2. Loosen the flesh from the bone on one side without detaching it.

  3. Make an incision on both sides of the bone along the length of the fish.

  4. Break the bone in one or two places with the handle of a knife.

  5. Wrap the fish in a soft cloth and leave it in a cool place to stiffen.

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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