Fish (Engelegte) (Another Recipe)

Origin: Cape Town, South Africa

Source: Hildagonda J. Duckitt, 1891

Ingredients

Instructions

  1. Substitute turmeric for the curry paste.
  2. Add to the onions, etc., 4 or 5 fresh red chillies, 3 dozen coriander seeds, 1/2 ounce of ground ginger, a few lemon leaves, 1 ounce of sugar and 1 quart of good vinegar.
  3. Let these ingredients boil up well.
  4. Take the fillets of fish, which have been previously fried a nice brown colour in lard and well drained, and put them carefully into the boiling mixture of curry.
  5. Just let it boil up.
  6. Cork well in small jars; this ensures its keeping for months.

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