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Corned Fish

From an old cookbook · modernised transcription
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Corned Fish

Ingredients

Directions

  1. Split the fish in the center and remove the large backbone if necessary.

  2. Sprinkle the bottom of a keg with rock salt.

  3. Layer fish with skin side down and cover with more rock salt.

  4. Repeat layers, finishing with a thicker layer of salt.

  5. Store in a dry, cool place for 3 to 5 days.

  6. To prepare, soak the fish overnight in cold water before cooking.

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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