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Planked Shad

Whole shad cooked on an oak board with wooden pegs.

From an old cookbook · modernised transcription
From a historical cookbook (Internet Archive) · 3 ingredients
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Planked Shad

Ingredients

Directions

Prepare

  1. Preheat your grill or oven.

  2. Attach the shad to a thick oak board using white tacks or wooden pegs.

Cook and serve

  1. Grill or bake until cooked through.

  2. When ready to serve, remove the tacks or pegs and serve the shad on the oak plank.

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

Shad
The main fish, which cooks through on the board and forms the whole dish.

“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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