Boiled Halibut
Ingredients
Directions
Prepare
Wash the halibut in plenty of cold water.
Cook and serve
Place the halibut in a pot with 4 quarts of cold salted water.
Boil until the flakes begin to separate.
Drain the halibut and serve with your choice of sauce.
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
- Halibut
- Is the main protein; cooking firms its flesh until the flakes separate.
The step that matters
Boil until the flakes begin to separate. Boiling past this point toughens the proteins and dries the fish, so the flakes start to separate as a sign it is cooked through.
“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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