Cache-Control: public, max-age=1024000 Epicure's Almanac : BROILED MACKEREL

The Epicure's Almanac or Diary of Good Living

April 22nd : BROILED MACKEREL

There is a senseless jingle extant, that

“A leg of mutton boil'd,

Is a leg of mutton spoil’d."

However inapplicable the rhyme may be to mutton, it is strictly true as regards mackerel. Nothing can be more woolly, flat, and tasteless than boiled mackerel; as a proof of the absence of all flavour, that most hor rid abomination fennel sauce is served with it. Now a good-sized fish, with a hard roe, split, broiled, rubbed over with fresh butter, and eaten with Reading sauce,

Cayenne, and salt, is by no means unsavoury ; and I feel certain when once this mode of dressing has been tried,the usual method will be entirely superseded.