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Boiled Finnan Haddie

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Ingredients 3 ingredients

  1. a teaspoonful of sugar
  2. Butter
  3. Water

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

  1. Divide into convenient pieces, cover with boiling water, add a teaspoonful of sugar, and boil for fifteen minutes.
  2. Take up on a hot platter, remove the skin, and dot with butter.

Plating

Cookware for this recipe

  • Saucepan
Source Public domain in the USA
Credit

From The Myrtle Reed Cook Book, by Myrtle Reed (1905). Digitised by Project Gutenberg, eBook #37680 (https://www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/37680). 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.