Fried Flounders
Ingredients
Directions
Scrape the flounders clean and remove the heads.
Wash the flounders in salt and water, then wipe them dry.
Make crosswise gashes in the flounders.
Heat cooking fat in a pan and lay the flounders in it.
Fry until they are light brown, or broil like codfish.
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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