To Cure Finnan Haddock
Ingredients
Directions
Remove the heads from the haddock and split them open.
Wipe the fish clean and sprinkle lightly with coarse sea salt.
Place the fish in a moderate heat for 12 hours.
Hang the fish up to drain for 3 hours.
Tie the fish in pairs.
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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