Name: On Boiling Fish
Ingredients: fish of any considerable size or thickness; cold water

On Boiling Fish

Ingredients

fish of any considerable size or thickness
cold water

Directions

Place the fish in a pot of cold water.
Bring the water to a strong boil.
Add a small amount of cold water to reduce the boiling.
Continue adding cold water as needed to maintain a gentle boil until the fish is cooked through.
Keep the pot covered to prevent dirt from falling in, but remove the cover occasionally.

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.