To Boil Haddocks
Ingredients
Directions
Prepare
Select medium-sized haddocks.
Clean and wash the haddocks.
Cook and serve
Boil the haddocks in water with a little coarse sea salt for 20 to 30 minutes.
Serve with oyster sauce.
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
- Haddocks
- Provides the main protein, which turns firm and flaky as it cooks in the water.
The step that matters
Boiling the haddocks for 20 to 30 minutes. Fish proteins set quickly with heat. Boiling too long squeezes out moisture and leaves the flesh dry and tough, so check for flakiness near the shorter end of the range.
“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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