Aberdeen Method of Fielding Salmon
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United Kingdom
Known as a British recipe, with similar versions prepared across other nations.
Ingredients 5 ingredients
Cook safely
Keep children and pets away from the hob and the oven, and keep oven gloves and a lid within reach.
- Boiling water and steam. Turn pan handles inward, away from the edge of the hob. Lift lids away from you, and pour hot water away from your body: steam burns too.
Method
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- Boil salmon, as if intended immediately for the table, in water mixed with a good quantity of common salt;
- then lay it to drain, till cold, in the open air.
- Afterwards, put it into a close cask or pot, with a gallon of vinegar to thirty pounds of salmon, and half the quantity of water in which the fish was boiled.
- Great care must be used in taking offthe scum, as it rises, during the whole time the salmon is boiling, which should on no account be overdone.
Plating
Cookware for this recipe
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Saucepan
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Colander