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Boiled Fresh Mackerel

A simple boiled fresh mackerel prepared with water, sea salt, and vinegar.

From an old cookbook · modernised transcription
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Boiled Fresh Mackerel

Ingredients

Directions

  1. Fill a pot with water and add coarse sea salt and a splash of vinegar.

  2. Bring the water to a boil.

  3. Add the fresh mackerel to the boiling water.

  4. Cook until the mackerel is fully cooked through.

  5. Serve as desired.

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

Fresh mackerel
Provides the main protein, which firms and turns opaque as it cooks through.

“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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