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To Render Boiled Fish Firm

Contains saltpetre, which may pose food safety risks.

From an old cookbook · modernised transcription
From a historical cookbook (Internet Archive) · 3 ingredients
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To Render Boiled Fish Firm

Ingredients

Directions

  1. Add saltpetre and salt to water before boiling fish.

  2. Boil the fish until the thickest part separates easily from the backbone.

  3. Remove the fish from the pan immediately to prevent overcooking.

  4. If the fish is whole, lift it from the water when the flesh of the tail breaks from the bone and the eyes loosen from the head.

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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