Mackerel Stewed with Wine

Ingredients

• 1 teaspoonful flour
• 2 ounces butter
• 1/4 teaspoonful mace
• 1/2 teaspoonful salt
• cayenne
• 3 wineglassesful claret
• 2 whole mackerel
• 1 teaspoonful made mustard
• lemon-juice

Instructions

1. Work the flour and butter together very smoothly.
2. Put them into a stewpan and stir or shake them round over the fire until the butter is dissolved.
3. Add the mace, salt, and cayenne to the pan.
4. Pour in the claret by slow degrees.
5. When the sauce boils, lay in the two cleaned and dried mackerel.
6. Stew them very softly for fifteen to twenty minutes, turning them when half done.
7. Lift the mackerel out and dish them carefully.
8. Stir the made mustard into the sauce, give it a boil, and pour it over the fish.