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Baked Sole with Wine Sauce

A historical recipe from How to Cook Fish, by Myrtle Reed.

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A historical recipe

How to Cook Fish, by Myrtle Reed. Project Gutenberg eBook #18542.

From an old book: a historical recipe, not current advice. Its methods, additives and storage may be unsafe by today's standards.

Ingredients 4 ingredients

  1. two cupfuls of white wine
  2. one tablespoonful of butter
  3. a cupful of cold water
  4. one tablespoonful each of butter

Method

  1. Clean a large sole, trimming off the gills and dark skin and scraping the white side.
  2. Make a deep cut on each side of the back-bone and take off the fins.
  3. Put into a buttered baking-pan with salt and pepper to season and two cupfuls of white wine.
  4. Bake for twenty minutes.
  5. Cook together one tablespoonful of butter and two of flour, add a cupful of cold water and cook until thick, stirring constantly.
  6. Strain the liquor from the fish into the sauce, bring to the boil, add one tablespoonful each of butter and minced parsley, pour over the fish and serve.

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Source Public domain in the USA
Credit

From How to Cook Fish, by Myrtle Reed. Digitised by Project Gutenberg, eBook #18542 (https://www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/18542). Public domain in the USA; its status may differ elsewhere.

What was changed: As printed, from the book's text; Project Gutenberg's header and licence removed. Ingredient lines were read out of the text by a program. A historical recipe, not current advice.