Name: Boiled Mackerel
Ingredients: 2 mackerel; drawn butter

Boiled Mackerel

Ingredients

2 mackerel
drawn butter

Directions

Prepare

Remove the innards from the mackerel at the vent.
Wrap each mackerel in a separate cloth.

Cook and serve

Boil the mackerel for 20 minutes.
Serve with drawn butter.

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

Mackerel: Provides the main protein and flesh that cooks through gently in the boiling water.
Drawn butter: Adds richness and fat that complements the mild, moist flesh of the fish.

“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.