Sauce for Fish Curry
Ingredients
Directions
Put the fish trimmings into a saucepan.
Add 2 cups of water.
Simmer until the flavors are extracted.
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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What each ingredient does
- Fish trimmings
- Provide the main savory flavor and body for the sauce as they simmer.
“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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