American Medium Mrs. F.L. Gillette

Baked Shad

Original Recipe

Many people are of the opinion that the very best method of cooking a shad is to bake it. Stuff it with bread crumbs, salt, pepper, butter and parsley, and mix this up with the beaten yolk of egg; fill the fish with it, and sew it up or fasten a string around it. Pour over it a little water and some butter, and bake as you would a fowl. A shad will require from an hour to an hour and a quarter to bake. Garnish with slices of lemon, water cress, etc. Dressing for Baked Shad.--Boil up the gravy in which the shad was baked, put in a large tablespoonful of catsup, a tablespoonful of brown flour which has been wet with cold water, the juice of a lemon, and a glass of sherry or Madeira wine. Serve in a sauce boat.

Ingredients

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  • 1 shad is to bake it
  • 10 yolk of egg
  • 10 a string around it
  • 1 little water and some butter
  • 1 fowl
  • 1 shad will require from an hour to an hour and a quarter to bake
  • 1 large tablespoonful of catsup
  • 1 tablespoonful of brown flour which has been wet with cold water
  • 1 lemon
  • 1 glass of sherry or madeira wine
  • 1 sauce boat

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Instructions

  1. 1

    Many people are of the opinion that the very best method of cooking a shad is to bake it.

  2. 2

    Stuff it with bread crumbs, salt, pepper, butter and parsley, and mix this up with the beaten yolk of egg; fill the fish with it, and sew it up or fasten a string around it.

  3. 3

    Pour over it a little water and some butter, and bake as you would a fowl.

  4. 4

    A shad will require from an hour to an hour and a quarter to bake.

  5. 5

    Garnish with slices of lemon, water cress, etc. _Dressing for Baked Shad._--Boil up the gravy in which the shad was baked, put in a large tablespoonful of catsup, a tablespoonful of brown flour which has been wet with cold water, the juice of a lemon, and a glass of sherry or Madeira wine.

  6. 6

    Serve in a sauce boat.

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