To Dress Sheephead

Ingredients

• One Sheephead fish, 18-20 inches long
• 1 bottle of ketchup
• 1 stick of butter
• 1 pint of water
• 1 spoonful of table salt 
• 1 spoonful of black and red pepper 

Directions

1. Place Sheephead into a pan. 
2. Place pan into dutch oven.
3. Add 1/2 pint of tomato catsup (ketchup) to pan.
4. Add a large spoonful of butter to pan. 
5. Add 1/2 pint of water to pan.
6. Add salt, black and red pepper to suite 
7. Cook it over fire and serve it up with the dressing. 

Source — Creole Cookery Book
Prepared by Trace Bennett
Louisiana Anthology
June 8,2020