Name: Broiled Fish
Ingredients: 2-3 tablespoons salad oil; fish

Broiled Fish

Ingredients

2-3 tablespoons salad oil
fish

Directions

Place the fish on a flat plate.
Pour 2-3 tablespoons of salad oil over the fish.
Let the fish soak in the oil for 1 hour.
Turn the fish over and repeat the oil soaking on the other side.
Broil the fish as desired.

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

Salad oil: Coats the fish, adding moisture and helping prevent it from drying out under heat.
Fish: The main protein; it is cooked by broiling after soaking in oil.

“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.