Cookbook:Marinated Mackerel

| Cuisine of the UK

Ingredients

 * 4 or more mackerels
 * 2 fresh bay leaves, chopped
 * 6 cloves
 * 1 blade of mace
 * 1 sprig of fresh thyme
 * 1 onion, chopped
 * 10 peppercorns
 * Salt
 * Malt vinegar

Procedure

 * 1) Clean and scale fish. Place in a baking dish large enough for the fish and vinegar.
 * 2) Mix other ingredients, except vinegar, with salt to taste, and pour over fish.
 * 3) Pour over enough vinegar to cover well.
 * 4) Place in moderate oven for 40–50 minutes.
 * 5) Lift fish carefully onto serving dish, and strain liquor over top.
 * 6) Let cool and serve.

Notes, tips, and variations

 * from Boscastle W.I. in Cornish Recipes, Ancient & Modern, 22nd Edition, The Cornwall Federation of Women's Institutes 1965.
 * First collected & published by Edith Martin, Tregavethan, Truro, 1929, for The Cornwall F.of W. I.