Name: On Dressing Fish
Ingredients: Fish; Dripping or hog's lard; Coarse sea salt

On Dressing Fish

Ingredients

Fish
Dripping or hog's lard
Coarse sea salt

Directions

Ensure fish is fresh and clean.
Heat a deep pan and add enough dripping or lard to cover the fish.
When the fat is boiling hot and begins to smoke, carefully add the fish.
Fry small fish for 3-4 minutes, turning them with a fork.
Do not let the fish sit in water after boiling; cover and keep warm until served.

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.