Baked Fish Recipe

 

Ingredients

• 5 pounds fish
• Sweet lard
• Mace
• Salt
• Cayenne
• Butter
• Flour
• Onions
• Parsley
• Breadcrumbs
• Slices of pork
• Water
• Eggs
• Red wine
• Tomatoes or oysters

Directions

1. Take a large fish, weighing 5 pounds, or more
2. Cut the sides, and brown in a frying pan with a little sweet lard
3. Grind fine 24 or 30 cloves, a little mace, a tablespoonful of salt, a small teaspoonful of cayenne, 2 ditto of black pepper, 12 balls of butter about the size of a walnut, each rolled in flour, 2 handfuls of chopped onion, 1 ditto of parsley, 1 of bread crumbs
4. Fill the fish and sew up
5. Rub over the outside with egg, and cover with remainder of dressing
6. Put some slices of pork in the pan (if it has not been browned first)
7. Put the fish on, and set in the oven till brown
8.  Add 1 pint of water, and bake for 2 hours
9.  add 1 pint red wine. A few oysters with their liquor will improve it; also shrimps or tomatoes, mushrooms and truffles.

Source - Creole Cookery Book

Prepared by Don Hobdy

Louisiana Anthology

September 30, 2023