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Skate With Brown Butter

From Mrs. Beeton's household management (1907).

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A historical recipe

Mrs. Beeton's household management, by Mrs. (Isabella Mary) Beeton (1907).

United Kingdom

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

From an old book: a historical recipe, not current advice. Its methods, additives and storage may be unsafe by today's standards. Printed in United Kingdom: that says where the book was made, not where the dish comes from.

Ingredients 1 ingredient

  1. an oz. of fresh butter

Method

  1. (Fr.
  2. — Raie au beurre-noir.) Proceed as directed in the foregoing recipe, and serve on a hot dish without the napkin.
  3. Meanwhile heat an oz.
  4. of fresh butter until it t :mt -brown in colour, then add a tca>p >onfiil oi vinegar aii'l a little choppc-!
  5. , Pour this hot over the fish, garnish with sprigs oi p,n>lry an-1 .serve.

Plating

Source public domain per archive.org metadata; unverified
Credit

From Mrs. Beeton's household management (1907), printed page 380, digitised by the Internet Archive: https://archive.org/details/mrsbeetonshouse00beetuoft

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.