Fried Mackerel

Ingredients

• mackerel
• salt
• pepper or cayenne
• flour
• lard
• 1.5 ounce butter
• 1 teaspoon flour
• 0.5 pint good broth or gravy
• 1 lemon
• 1 tablespoon made mustard
• 1 dessertspoon chili vinegar
• thick melted butter
• Harvey's sauce or mushroom catsup

Instructions

1. Empty and wash the mackerel extremely clean.
2. Cut off the heads and tails, split the bodies quite open, and remove the backbones (or take the flesh cleanly off the bones).
3. Wipe the mackerel very dry.
4. Dust the fish with fine salt, pepper or cayenne.
5. Flour the fish well.
6. Fry them a fine brown in boiling lard.
7. Drain them thoroughly.
8. In a small saucepan, dissolve an ounce and a half of butter smoothly mixed with a teaspoonful of flour, along with salt, pepper, or cayenne.
9. Shake these over a gentle fire until they are lightly coloured.
10. Add by slow degrees nearly half a pint of good broth or gravy, and the juice of one large lemon.
11. Boil the sauce for a couple of minutes.
12. Serve the fish with the hot sauce.