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To Salt Haddocks or Whitings

From an old cookbook · modernised transcription
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To Salt Haddocks or Whitings

Ingredients

Directions

  1. Clean the fish and split them open.

  2. Lay the fish in coarse sea salt for two days.

  3. Wipe the fish dry and sprinkle with a little powdered alum.

  4. Hang the fish up in a warm place.

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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