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TO  BOIL  FISH
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TO BOIL FISH

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Estimated Nutrition (whole recipe, rough)

360
Calories
28g
Protein
21g
Fat
12g
Carbs
What these numbers assume — 4 portions →
Ingredient Portion assumed kcal
Salmon 100g cooked 208
Milk 1 cup (244ml) whole 149
Vinegar 1 tbsp (15ml) distilled 3
Salt 1 tsp (6g) 0

Totals for the whole recipe, adding one typical portion per ingredient — listed above. Quantities in the recipe are not counted, so this is a rough guide only — not suitable for medical or dietary planning.

Ingredients

  • a teaspoonful of salt
  • a tablespoonful of vinegar to every pound of fish
  • a pint of milk
  • a piece of butler the size of an eg^g
  • 14 fish
  • salt
  • vinegar

Directions

1

Fish should be scaled and thoroughly cleaned, well salted and put in a cold place until time to cook. Boil in a fish kettle, with water enough to cover it, or wrap and tie in a cloth, and boil in any cooking vessel ; if the fish is large it can be doubled in the cloth ; cover with more than two inches of boiling water, adding a teaspoonful of salt and a tablespoonful of vinegar to every pound of fish. A good sized fish will cook in half an hour. Be careful not to break in taking out.

2

Sauce. — Stir into a pint of milk, boiling, a piece of butler the size of an eg^g, mixed with Hour, and a hard boiled idgg^ cut up fine ; pour this over the fish or serve in a sauce-boat. — Mrs. 8. P. Si7?ipso7i, St. Louis, 1875,

3

FISH AND OYSTERS. 15

By Fayette (Mo.). Baptist Church, Ladies of the · Recipe sourced from internet_archive

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