To Boil Soles
Ingredients
Directions
Bring 3 quarts of spring water and a handful of coarse sea salt to a boil.
Gently add the soles and boil for 10 minutes.
Serve the soles on a clean napkin with anchovy or shrimp sauce in small boats.
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
- Soles
- Form the main body of the dish, cooked gently by the boiling water.
- Anchovy sauce or shrimp sauce
- Adds a salty, savoury accent to the mild boiled fish at serving.
The step that matters
Gently add the soles and boil for 10 minutes. Adding fish to water that is still boiling hard can break up its flesh. Keeping the simmer steady, with the soles added gently, helps them cook through while staying intact.
“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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