Caveached Fish

The Queen Cookery Books. No.3. Pickle... · S. Beaty-Pownall · 1902
Source
The Queen Cookery Books. No.3. Pickles and Preservatives
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Ingredients (12)
Instructions (10)
  1. Cut the fish into slices, fillets, or pieces, as is most convenient.
  2. Sprinkle them with pepper and salt (using white pepper for delicate fish).
  3. Fry these in oil.
  4. When cooked, drain, and put them aside to cook.
  5. Boil some vinegar (sufficient to cover the fish well), with enough white peppercorns, a few cloves, a blade or so of mace, and salt to flavour the vinegar well.
  6. Allow this to become cold.
  7. Pour to it a gill of oil.
  8. Pack the fish in a jar with very thinly sliced onion between each piece of layer of fish.
  9. Pour the pickle over it all.
  10. Keep it well covered.
Original Text
Caveached Fish.—Cut the fish into slices, fillets, or pieces, as is most convenient, sprinkle them with pepper and salt (using white pepper for delicate fish) , then fry these in oil. When cooked, drain, and put them aside to cook. Boil some vinegar (sufficient to cover the fish well), with enough white peppercorns, a few cloves, a blade or so of mace, and salt to flavour the vineagar well. Allow this to become cold, then pour to it a gill of oil; now pack the fish in a jar with very thinly sliced onion between each piece of layer of fish, and then pour the pickle over it all. Keep it well covered. Any fish can be treated in this way, salmon being particularly good, but requiting to stand for a day or two, as it breaks if put quite fresh into the pickle. Some people add a few peppercorns and bay leaves to the pickle.
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