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Vintage Baked Fish Recipe

	Pat2me / All my dishes 1 year, 10 months ago This recipe is from a 1905 Pillsbury cookbook, "A Book For A Cook". It's lengthy but I got a kick out of it and wanted to share. Here is most of it verbatim: First - Catch your fish Second- Serve your soup course. The fish which follows the soup c... More Prep:150m Cook:70m Servings:6	Pat2me
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Ingredients

4 lbs of fish

1 Tbl salt

1 pint bread crumbs

4 Tbl melted butter

1 lemon

1 Tbl minced parsley

2 Tbl grated oniion

1/4 tsp pepper

1/2 tsp salt

1 C raw oysters

Slices of fat pork (salt pork, fat back today)

Directions

Take the four pound fish with the head on; wash it thoroughly and sprinkle with one tablespoon of salt.

Put in the ice box and leave it there for two hours

Make a stuffing of one cup bread crumbs, parsley, grated onion, melted butter and lemon juice, grated rind of the lemon, salt, pepper and raw chopped oysters.

Fill the body of the fish with the stuffing, sew up opening or skewer and place on baking sheet.

cover with slices of fat pork and bake in hot oven.

When the fish begins to brown baste it with the hot water and reduce the heat of the oven

Bake slowly, basting every ten minutes.

At the end of forty minutes, remove the pork , cover the dish with the white sauce ( not mentioned previously), sprinkle with bread crumbs and bake until crumbs are brown.

When done, remove to a hot platter and garnish with fried oysters (also, not previously mentioned), parsly or slices of lemon and parsly.

Whew! No wonder these ladies were tired!

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Comments

rosemaryblue 1 year, 10 months ago said:
Great old recipe! :)

frankieanne 1 year, 10 months ago said:
Wonderful post. Thank you for sharing it.

jenniferbyrdez 1 year, 10 months ago said:
Fantastic. Thanks so much.

linebb956 1 year, 10 months ago said:
U know they prob cooked this as they were beating the rugs on the back porch! They did work hard.. and we complain! It is a great post!

wolfpackjack 1 year, 10 months ago said:
I like the commentary. Great post.. Thanks guys.

pat2me 1 year, 10 months ago said:

cooper 1 year, 10 months ago said:
I love these old recipes -- before microwaves and crockpots. It makes you realize how spoiled we are with our modern creature comforts. And remember -- iceboxes, no refrigerators. And I can emember my grandmother who cooked on a huge wood stove and no electricity. Thanks for sharing!

pat2me 1 year, 10 months ago said:

noir 1 year, 9 months ago said:
I love vintage recipes! This deserves a ^5! :)

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