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Boiled Bass

A whole bass is cleaned, salted, and boiled for 30 minutes.

From an old cookbook · modernised transcription
From a historical cookbook (Internet Archive) · 2 ingredients
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Boiled Bass

Ingredients

Directions

Prepare the fish

  1. Scrape off the scales from the bass.

  2. Wash the fish in salt and water.

Boil the fish

  1. Place the fish in a fish kettle and cover it with boiling water.

  2. Boil for 30 minutes.

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

Bass
Forms the whole fish that is cooked through in the boiling water.

“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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