SPRATS

The Experienced English Housekeeper · Elizabeth Raffald · 1784

Source: The Experienced English Housekeeper
Status: success · extracted 11 days ago
Not a recipe: No

Ingredients (7)

sprats
salt ↝ Salt, table, iodized [Spices and Herbs]
pepper ↝ Spices, pepper, black [Spices and Herbs]
two pints of vinegar ↝ Vinegar [Mustard and other condiments]
one pint of red wine ↝ Wine, red [Wine]
a penny-worth of cochineal
red wine, vinegar, and cochineal as will cover them ↝ Wine, red [Wine]

Instructions (7)

Rub your sprats with salt and pepper.
To every two pints of vinegar put one pint of red wine, dissolve a penny-worth of cochineal.
Lay your sprats in a deep earthen dish.
Pour in as much red wine, vinegar, and cochineal as will cover them.
Tie a paper over them.
Set them in an oven all night.
They will eat well, and keep for some time.

Original Text

To bake SPRATS.
RUB your sprats with salt and pepper, and
to every two pints of vinegar put one pint of
red wine, dissolve a penny-worth of cochineal,
lay your sprats in a deep earthen dish, pour in
as much red wine, vinegar, and cochineal as
will cover them, tie a paper over them, set them
in an oven all night.—They will eat well,
and keep for some time.

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