Boiled Fresh Mackerel
Ingredients
Directions
Fill a pot with water and add coarse sea salt and a splash of vinegar.
Bring the water to a boil.
Add the fresh mackerel to the boiling water.
Cook until the mackerel is fully cooked through.
Serve with cream sauce or egg sauce.
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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