An Excellent Way to Dress Fish

Origin: Tidewater Virginia

Source: Mary Randolph, 1824

Ingredients

Instructions

  1. Dredge the fish well with flour, sprinkle salt and pepper on them, and fry them a nice brown; set them by to get cold.
  2. Put a quarter of a pound of butter in a frying pan;
  3. when it boils, fry tomatos with the skins taken off, parsley nicely picked, and a very little chopped onion.
  4. When done, add as much water as will make sauce for the fish, and season it with pepper, salt, and pounded cloves.
  5. Add some wine and mushroom catsup.
  6. Put the fish in, and when thoroughly heated, serve it up.

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