To Dress Shad

The Book of Household Management · Beeton, Mrs. (Isabella Mary) · 1861

Source: The Book of Household Management
Time: Total: 60 min
Status: success · extracted 13 days ago
Not a recipe: No

Ingredients (4)

1 shad ↝ Fish, shad, american, raw [Finfish and Shellfish Products]
oil ↝ Oil, safflower [Fats and Oils]
pepper ↝ Spices, pepper, black [Spices and Herbs]
salt ↝ Salt, table, iodized [Spices and Herbs]

Instructions (3)

Scale, empty and wash the fish carefully, and make two or three incisions across the back.
Season it with pepper and salt, and let it remain in oil for 1/2 hour.
Broil it on both sides over a clear fire, and serve with caper sauce.

Original Text

TO DRESS SHAD.

311. INGREDIENTS.—1 shad, oil, pepper, and salt.

Mode.—Scale, empty and wash the fish carefully, and make two or three incisions across the back. Season it with pepper and salt, and let it remain in oil for 1/2 hour. Broil it on both sides over a clear fire, and serve with caper sauce. This fish is much esteemed by the French, and by them is considered excellent.

Time.—Nearly 1 hour.

Average cost.—Seldom bought.

Seasonable from April to June.

[Illustration: THE SHAD.]

THE SHAD.—This is a salt-water fish, but is held in little esteem. It enters our rivers to spawn in May, and great numbers of them are taken opposite the Isle of Dogs, in the Thames.

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