Boiled salmon.

Ingredients:- 6 oz. of alkali to anniversary gallon of water, acceptable baptize to awning the fish.

Mode:- Calibration and apple-pie the fish, and be accurate that no claret is larboard inside; lay it in the fish-kettle with acceptable algid baptize to awning it, abacus alkali in the aloft proportion. Bring it bound to a boil, booty off all the scum, and let it simmer acclaim till the angle is done, which will be back the meat separates calmly from the bone. Experience abandoned can advise the baker to fix the time for baking fish; but it is abnormally to be remembered, that it should never be underdressed, as again annihilation is added unwholesome. Neither let it abide in the kettle afterwards it is abundantly cooked, as that would cede it insipid, watery, and colourless. Cesspool it, and if not capital for a few minutes, accumulate it balmy by agency of balmy cloths laid over it. Serve on a hot napkin, adornment with cut auto and parsley, and accelerate lobster or shrimp sauce, and apparent broiled adulate to table with it. A bowl of dressed cucumber usually accompanies this fish.

Time. 8 account to anniversary lb. for ample blubbery salmon; 6 account for attenuate fish.

Note. Cut auto should be put on the table with this fish; and a little of the abstract awkward over it is advised by abounding bodies a best acceptable addition. Above peas are also, by some connoisseurs, advised abnormally acclimatized to be served with salmon.

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