24. Whitings

The Modern Housewife · Soyer, Alexis · 1849

Source: The Modern Housewife
Status: success · extracted 12 days ago
Not a recipe: No

Ingredients (5)

for whitings

whitings ↝ Mushrooms, white, raw [Vegetables and Vegetable Products]
salt ↝ Salt, table, iodized [Spices and Herbs]
a string ↝ Yellow string beans, cooked [String beans]
a little flour ↝ Flour, 00 [Cereal Grains and Pasta]
a small piece of fresh butter ↝ Asparagus, fresh, cooked with butter or margarine [Other vegetables and combinations]

Instructions (4)

Obtain the fish as fresh as possible, clean and skin them, take out the eyes.
Cover the fish over with salt, immediately after which take them out and shake off the superfluous salt.
Pass a string through the eye-holes, and hang them up to dry in a passage or some place where there is a current of air.
The next morning take them off, just roll them lightly in a little flour, broil them gently over a slow fire, and serve very hot, with a small piece of fresh butter rubbed over each, or serve quite dry if preferable.

Original Text

24. Whitings.—Of all the modes of preparing and dressing whitings for breakfast I cannot but admire and prize the system pursued by the Scotch, which renders them the most light, wholesome, and delicious food that could possibly be served for breakfast: their method is, to obtain the fish as fresh as possible, clean and skin them, take out the eyes, cover the fish over with salt, immediately after which take them out and shake off the superfluous salt, pass a string through the eye-holes, and hang them up to dry in a passage or some place where there is a current of air; the next morning take them off, just roll them lightly in a little flour, broil them gently over a slow fire, and serve very hot, with a small piece of fresh butter rubbed over each, or serve quite dry if preferable.

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