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To Preserve Fish Fresh

This method preserves fish by scalding it in boiling vinegar water and hanging it in a cool place.

From an old cookbook · modernised transcription
From a historical cookbook (Internet Archive) · 2 ingredients
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To Preserve Fish Fresh

Ingredients

Directions

  1. Boil 3 quarts of water and 1 pint of vinegar together.

  2. While boiling, add the fish and scald it for no more than 2 minutes.

  3. Hang the fish in a cool place to keep for 2 to 3 days.

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.

Explore the science

What each ingredient does

Vinegar
Its acidity lowers the pH, slowing bacterial growth on the fish.

The step that matters

Scalding the fish. Scalding for longer than 2 minutes keeps cooking the flesh, which firms and toughens its texture and can make the fish dry.

“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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