An Excellent Way to Dress Fish
Origin: Tidewater Virginia
Source: Mary Randolph, 1824
Ingredients
- Fish
- Flour
- Salt
- Pepper
- 1/4 pound Butter
- Tomatoes
- Parsley
- Onion
- Water
- Pounded cloves
- Wine
- Mushroom catsup
Instructions
- Dredge the fish well with flour, sprinkle salt and pepper on them, and fry them a nice brown; set them by to get cold.
- Put a quarter of a pound of butter in a frying pan;
- when it boils, fry tomatos with the skins taken off, parsley nicely picked, and a very little chopped onion.
- When done, add as much water as will make sauce for the fish, and season it with pepper, salt, and pounded cloves.
- Add some wine and mushroom catsup.
- Put the fish in, and when thoroughly heated, serve it up.