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Boiled burbot with allspice and sage

  • Serves 4
  • about 45 minutes
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1796Wehdseles wahriht.

Modernizētslpp. 174–175 · PDF 188–189
4 porcijas

The book gives no quantities; the amounts below are ours.

Method

5 soļi
  1. Remove the slime: put the fish in a bucket or sink, sprinkle generously with coarse salt and rub the slime off with a cloth, then rinse. Or skin the fish, as is usual today: cut round behind the head and pull the skin off towards the tail.
  2. Clean: slit open the belly. Keep the large pale liver for 03-079, first cutting away the green gall bladder without breaking it. The book throws away the roe. Pull out the gills or cut off the head.
  3. Rinse the fish in hot water, cut it into 5 cm pieces and trim off the fins.
  4. Put the pieces in a pan with the cold water and salt, bring slowly to a simmer and skim well. Add the allspice and sage and simmer gently for 8–12 minutes, until the flesh comes away from the backbone (63 °C).
  5. Lift into a warm dish and serve with wine vinegar to sprinkle over.

Notes

What the book says vs. what we added

cleaning off the slime with salt and sifted ashes in a pail, keeping the liver, discarding the gall bladder and roe, rinsing in hot water, cutting into pieces, cutting off the "legs", starting in cold, well-salted water, skimming, allspice and sage, and wine vinegar on the side are all the book's. The amounts and times are ours. Don't use ash: it is alkaline (lye) and irritates the skin.

Burbot (vēdzele, Lota lota) is the only freshwater cod: firm, white, with no fine bones, only a backbone. It is caught in winter in the Baltic countries and Finland. Monkfish or cod is the nearest substitute.

Legs

the book says to cut off the "legs". Burbot has none; we take it to mean the fins, perhaps the pelvic fins under the throat.

Roe

in Finland burbot roe is a delicacy today, but the book discards it.

Gall bladder

if it breaks, its bile makes the flesh bitter. Cut it out carefully.

Safety

burbot can carry tapeworm larvae. Cook it through.

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