Fast-Day Cookery; or, Meals without Meat

by Grace Johnson

14. Baked Fish.

Get a good sized gurnet, stuff it with the following mixture; tie it carefully round with tape (string cuts the fish), put it in a baking tin, cover over with little dotes of butter here and there and a sprinkling of salt and pepper. Put it into the oven, and bake till well done; remove the tape carefully, so as not to spoil the look of the fish. Ornament with tufts of parsley, and serve with a dish of mashed potatoes, or fried potato chips.

Fish Stuffing.

One cup of fine bread crumbs, three ounces of butter well worked in, one teaspoon of herbs, as for veal stuffing, pepper and salt to taste, the yolks of two eggs. Mix all well together, and stuff the fish neatly.