Name: Pickled Mackerel
Ingredients: mackerel; vinegar; whole black peppercorns; bay leaves

Pickled Mackerel

Ingredients

mackerel
vinegar
whole black peppercorns
bay leaves

Directions

Boil the mackerel until cooked through.
In a separate pot, boil some of the cooking liquid with vinegar, whole black peppercorns, and bay leaves to your desired strength.
Allow the liquid to cool.
Pour the cooled liquid over the boiled mackerel.

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.