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Eel, Conger, And Lamprey

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France

Known as a French recipe, with similar versions prepared across other nations.

Ingredients 3 ingredients

  1. a teaspoonful of vinegar
  2. Salt
  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. To clean.
  2. — "When skinned, clean, head, and tail them.
  3. Then throw them in boiling water, in which you have put a little salt and a teaspoonful of vinegar;
  4. leave them in it about five minutes, take out, and drain.

Plating

Cookware for this recipe

  • Saucepan
  • Colander
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Credit

From Hand-book of practical cookery, for ladies and professional cooks (1867), printed page 136, digitised by the Internet Archive: https://archive.org/details/handbookofpracti00blotrich

What was changed: Read by machine from the book's scanned text into ingredients and method. The title's capitals were tidied; spelling and scanning errors are left as they are.