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Boiled Salmon Trout

A trout boiled in cold salted water after being wrapped in cloth.

From an old cookbook · modernised transcription
From a historical cookbook (Internet Archive) · 3 ingredients
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Boiled Salmon Trout

Ingredients

Directions

Prepare

  1. Clean, wash, and dry the trout.

  2. Wrap the trout in a thin cloth fitted to its shape.

  3. Place the wrapped trout in a fish kettle.

Boil and serve

  1. Cover the trout with cold salted water.

  2. Boil for 30 minutes.

  3. When done, unwrap and lay the trout in a hot dish.

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

Trout
Forms the main body of the dish, cooking gently in simmering water to stay moist and tender.

“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.

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