The Thorough Good Cook
by George Augustus Sala
recipes from 1896

A digital version of a rare antique cookbook originally published in 1896 for those who want to kick it Olde Skool !
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RECIPE

 


15. Baked Salmon.

  Clean, and cut the fish into slices ; put it in a dish,
and make the following sauce :- Melt an ounce of butter,
kneaded in flour, in a pint and half of gravy, with two
glasses of port wine, two tablespoonfuls of catsup, two anchovies, 
and a little cayenne. When the anchovies are dis-
solved, strain and pour the sauce over the fish, tie a sheet
of buttered paper over the dish, and bake in an oven.
Trout answer well dressed in this way.
 
 

 
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