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Grey Mullet A La Maitre D’hotel

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France

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

Ingredients 3 ingredients

  1. 2 pinches of salt
  2. Cuts
  3. Butter

Cook safely

Keep children and pets away from the hob and the oven, and keep oven gloves and a lid within reach.

  • Grill and open flame. Keep sleeves, hair and tea towels away from the flame, and stay with the grill while it's lit. Barbecue outdoors only, never in a closed space.

Method

  1. Take a grey mullet, weighing about 2 lbs.
  2. ;
  3. remove the gills, and cleanse the inside ;
  4. scale;
  5. wash;
  6. wipe;
  7. and score the mullet on each side, with a dozen cuts, inch deep;
  8. lay it on a dish;
  9. sprinkle with 2 pinches of salt ;
  10. and pour 3 tablespoonfids of oil over it ;
  11. broil, on an even moderate fire, for fifteen minutes, each side ;
  12. Place it on a di>h ;
  13. put lb.
  14. of d' Hotel butter on it ;
  15. and serve.

Plating

Cookware for this recipe

  • Grill or grill pan
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Credit

From The royal cookery book (le livre de cuisine) (1883), printed page 147, digitised by the Internet Archive: https://archive.org/details/b21538025

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.