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To Clean and Prepare Haddocks for Keeping

From an old cookbook · modernised transcription
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To Clean and Prepare Haddocks for Keeping

Ingredients

Directions

  1. Scrape the haddocks and remove the entrails.

  2. Cut them open below the vent to scrape out the blood from the backbone.

  3. Cut off the points of the tails, remove the eyes and gills, and wash the fish.

  4. Fill the bodies with coarse sea salt and let them sit overnight.

  5. Hang the fish on a wooden rod or fish hake in a cool, open-air place.

  6. They can be boiled or broiled after removing the heads and skin.

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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