Name: Smelts or Sparlings, Another Way
Ingredients: cold water or broth; prepared potato-flour or arrow-root

Smelts or Sparlings, Another Way

Ingredients

cold water or broth
prepared potato-flour or arrow-root

Directions

Mix a small quantity of cold water or broth with a little prepared potato-flour or arrow-root.
Use this mixture to create a sauce or broth for the fish.

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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Smelts or Sparlings, Another Way