Name: To Cook Salt Mackerel
Ingredients: salt mackerel; water; melted butter

To Cook Salt Mackerel

Ingredients

salt mackerel
water
melted butter

Directions

Soak the salt mackerel in water overnight.
Drain the mackerel and drop it in boiling water for 3 minutes.
Carefully remove the mackerel and place it on a dish.
Pour melted butter over the fish.
Alternatively, broil the mackerel on a gridiron and then pour melted butter over it.

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.