Baked Mackerel

Ingredients

• 4 middling-sized mackerel
• a nice delicate forcemeat (see Forcemeats)
• 3 oz butter
• pepper and salt to taste

Instructions

1. Clean the fish, take out the roes, and fill up with forcemeat, and sew up the slit.
2. Flour, and put them in a dish, heads and tails alternately, with the roes; and, between each layer, put some little pieces of butter, and pepper and salt.
3. Bake for 1/2 an hour, and either serve with plain melted butter or a _maître d'hôtel_ sauce.