Name: Boiled Soles
Ingredients: large soles; coarse sea salt; water; melted butter or shrimp sauce

Boiled Soles

Ingredients

large soles
coarse sea salt
water
melted butter or shrimp sauce

Directions

Wash and clean the soles thoroughly.
Remove the fins from the soles.
Place the soles in a fish kettle with salt and water.
Boil slowly and simmer until cooked through.
Serve on a napkin with the white side up, accompanied by melted butter or shrimp 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.