a little salt
↝ Salt, table, iodized
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Instructions (4)
When the whitings are trimmed, boil them in spring water with a little salt.
About seven minutes will suffice to do them.
Take the fish out of the water as soon as done.
Dish them up on a fish-plate covered.
Original Text
WHITINGS, BOILED.
WHEN the whitings are trimmed, boil them in spring water with a little salt—about seven minutes will suffice to do them; take the fish out of the water as soon as soon as done, dish them up on a fish-plate covered