The recipe
Ingredients
Contains: fish (auto-detected from the ingredients and method; we can miss things, so check labels)
Directions
Wash and cleanse the fish thoroughly.
Soak the fish in a saltwater solution for about 10 minutes.
Remove the fish and place it in a fish kettle on a strainer.
Add enough water to cover the fish slightly more than halfway.
Heat the kettle over the fire until it boils.
Skim off any scum that forms on the surface.
Cover the kettle tightly and let it cook.
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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