Ingredients
Everything you'll need to make this recipe
1
4 or more mackerels
2
2 fresh bay leaves, chopped
3
6 cloves
4
1 blade of mace
5
1 sprig of fresh thyme
6
1 onion, chopped
7
10 peppercorns
8
Salt
9
Malt vinegar
Instructions
Step-by-step guide to making this recipe
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 40â50 minutes.
40â50 minutes
5
Lift fish carefully onto serving dish, and strain liquor over top.
6
Let cool and serve.
Notes
- âąfrom Boscastle W.I. in Cornish Recipes, Ancient & Modern, 22nd Edition, The Cornwall Federation of Women's Institutes 1965.
- âąFirst collected & published by Edith Martin, Tregavethan, Truro, 1929, for The Cornwall F.of W. I.