How to Cook Whitebait

Name: How to Cook Whitebait
Cuisine: United Kingdom
Ingredients: Throw the whitebait off the sieves on the cloth and flour again.; Throw the whitebait off the sieves on the cloth and flour again.; Lay a cloth on the table and flour it well.; Take the whitebait out of the water.; Take the whitebait out of the water.; Take up the two sides of the cloth, one in each hand, and shake the fish and flour together.; Take up the two sides of the cloth, one in each hand, and shake the fish and flour together.

This is the recipe of Mr. Groves, a fishmonger

Preparation info

Difficulty
Easy

Appears in

Good Things in England

By Florence White

Published 1932

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Method

Take the whitebait out of the water.
Put them on the back of sieves to drain for about half an hour before cooking.
Lay a cloth on the table and flour it well.