Fish a-La-Daub

Original Recipe

Boil as many large white perch as will be sufficient for the dish; do not take off their heads, and be careful not to break their skins; when cold, place them in the dish, and cover them with savoury jelly broken. A nice piece of rock-fish is excellent done in the same way.

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Instructions

  1. 1

    Boil as many large white perch as will be sufficient for the dish; do not take off their heads, and be careful not to break their skins; when cold, place them in the dish, and cover them with savoury jelly broken.

  2. 2

    A nice piece of rock-fish is excellent done in the same way.

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Recipe by Mary Randolph from The Virginia Housewife; Or, Methodical Cook (1824)