Name: To Boil Fish
Ingredients: fish; coarse sea salt

To Boil Fish

Ingredients

fish
coarse sea salt

Directions

Sew the fish in a cloth.
Place the fish in cold water and add plenty of coarse sea salt.
Boil the fish for thirty 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

Fish: Is the main protein that turns firm and flaky as it cooks in the water.
Coarse sea salt: Seasons the fish and water so the flesh tastes seasoned throughout.

“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.