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To Broil Shad

A simple fish dish where a shad is cleaned, seasoned with pepper and sea salt, then broiled.

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

Ingredients

Directions

Prepare

  1. Clean, wash, and split the shad.

  2. Wipe it dry and sprinkle with pepper and coarse sea salt.

Cook

  1. Broil it like mackerel.

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 fish is the main ingredient and is cooked whole-split under the broiler.

“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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