Potted Salmon
- Salmon
- Pepper
- Salt
- Nutmeg
- Mace
Let your salmon be quite fresh; scale and rinse it clean well, and dry it with a cloth. Split it up the back, take out the bone, then season it well with pepper and salt, a little nutmeg and mace, and let it lie two or three hours. Then put it in your pot with half a pound of butter, tie it down, put it into the oven, and bake it one hour. When you take it from the oven, lay it on a flat dish, so that the oil may run from it; then cut it to the size of the pots in which you intend to keep it, and lay it in layers till you fill the pots, with the skin upward; put boards on them and weights to press it until it becomes cold; then pour clarified butter over it. When you serve the fish, you can cut it in slices.
Submitted by Aug 25, 2009
15 min 30 min 45 min
15 min 30 min 45 min