Name: Brine for Boiling Fish
Ingredients: 4 ounces coarse sea salt (formerly 'bay salt'); 1 gallon water; additional salt for specific fish types

Brine for Boiling Fish

Ingredients

4 ounces coarse sea salt (formerly 'bay salt')
1 gallon water
additional salt for specific fish types

Directions

Mix 4 ounces of coarse sea salt with 1 gallon of water for small fish.
For cod, lobsters, crabs, prawns, and shrimps, use 5 to 6 ounces of salt.
For salmon, use 6 ounces of salt.
Ensure the water is well skimmed from scum before boiling.

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.