Salt Corned Shad
Ingredients
Directions
Remove the head from the shad and clean it thoroughly.
Sprinkle coarse sea salt over the inside of the shad and let it sit for 12 hours.
Rinse off the salt and broil the shad until cooked through.
Add bits of butter on top while hot.
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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