Name: Fish Recipes
Ingredients: 1 gallon water; ¼ pound coarse sea salt

Fish Recipes

Ingredients

1 gallon water
¼ pound coarse sea salt

Directions

Cover the fish with water and add ¼ pound of coarse sea salt for every gallon of water.
Bring the water to a boil, then reduce the heat and let it simmer until the fish is tender.
Carefully drain the fish.

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.