American Medium Mrs. F.L. Gillette

Baked White Fish

Original Recipe

Clean and stuff the fish. Put it in a baking pan and add a liberal quantity of butter, previously rolled in flour, to the fish. Put in the pan half a pint of claret, and bake for an hour and a quarter. Remove the fish and strain the gravy; add to the latter a gill more of claret, a teaspoonful of brown flour and a pinch of cayenne, and serve with the fish. Plankington House, Milwaukee.

Ingredients

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  • 1 baking pan and add a liberal quantity of butter
  • 1 pint of claret
  • 1 quarter
  • 1 gill more of claret
  • 1 teaspoonful of brown flour and a pinch of cayenne

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Instructions

  1. 1

    Clean and stuff the fish.

  2. 2

    Put it in a baking pan and add a liberal quantity of butter, previously rolled in flour, to the fish.

  3. 3

    Put in the pan half a pint of claret, and bake for an hour and a quarter.

  4. 4

    Remove the fish and strain the gravy; add to the latter a gill more of claret, a teaspoonful of brown flour and a pinch of cayenne, and serve with the fish. _Plankington House, Milwaukee._.

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