Monkfish and Fried Apples

Name: Monkfish and Fried Apples
Yield: serves three
Cuisine: United Kingdom
Ingredients: 2 pork dripping or fat, 60 g (2 oz); 2 large cooking apples,; 2 pork dripping or fat, 60 g (2 oz); monkfish, ½ kg (1 lb); water, 4 tbs; peppercorns, 2 cloves,; peppercorns, 2 cloves,; vinegar, 4 tbs; salt, 1 tsp

Preparation info

serves
three

Difficulty
Easy

Appears in

North Atlantic Seafood

By Alan Davidson

Published 1980

About

This comes from the Daily Express Prize Recipes for Fish Cookery, published in the (?) 1930s and full of good things.

Ingredients

monkfish, ½ kg (1 lb)
water, 4

Europe
United Kingdom
Main course
Gluten-free

Method

‘Wash the fish and cut it into convenient-sized pieces. Place in a pie-dish with the water, vinegar, salt, peppercorns and cloves, and cover with greased paper.

‘Bake if the oven is being used for other things; if not place it on an asbestos mat over a low gas. Turn the fish over when it is half done. It takes about 15 minutes, and is cooked when the flesh is soft . . .

‘Peel th