Name: Boiled Fish
Ingredients: 1 fresh fish (4 to 6 pounds); 1 tablespoon salt; water (enough to cover the fish)

Boiled Fish

Ingredients

1 fresh fish (4 to 6 pounds)
1 tablespoon salt
water (enough to cover the fish)

Directions

Wash the fish in cold water.
Place the fish in boiling water that covers it. Add 1 tablespoon of salt to the water.
Simmer gently for 30 minutes.
Remove the fish from the water.

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: Forms the main body of the dish, cooking through gently in simmering water.
Salt: Seasons the cooking water so the fish is flavoured as it poaches.

“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.