164 examples of mackerels in sentences

BAKED MACKEREL.

279. INGREDIENTS.4 middling-sized mackerel, a nice delicate forcemeat (see Forcemeats), 3 oz. of butter; pepper and salt to taste.

Baked mackerel may be dressed in the same way as baked herrings (see No. 268), and may also be stewed in wine.

Fennel sauce and plain melted butter are the usual accompaniments to boiled mackerel; but caper or anchovy sauce is sometimes served with it.

After the water boils, 10 minutes; for large mackerel, allow more time.

When variety is desired, fillet the mackerel, boil it, and pour over parsley and butter; send some of this, besides, in a tureen. BROILED MACKEREL.

When variety is desired, fillet the mackerel, boil it, and pour over parsley and butter; send some of this, besides, in a tureen. BROILED MACKEREL.

Mackerel should never be washed when intended to be broiled, but merely wiped very clean and dry, after taking out the gills and insides.

When sufficiently cooked, the flesh can be detached from the bone, which will be in about 15 minutes for a small mackerel.

[Illustration: THE MACKEREL.

FILLETS OF MACKEREL.

large mackerel, 1 oz. butter, 1 small bunch of chopped herbs, 3 tablespoonfuls of medium stock, No. 105, 3 tablespoonfuls of béchamel (see Sauces); salt, cayenne, and lemon-juice to taste.

Lay in the mackerel, and simmer very gently for 10 minutes; take them out, and put them on a hot dish.

Dredge in a little flour, add the other ingredients, give one boil, and pour it over the mackerel.

Fillets of mackerel may be covered with egg and bread crumbs, and fried of a nice brown.

PICKLED MACKEREL.

INGREDIENTS.12 peppercorns, 2 bay-leaves, 1/2 pint of vinegar, 4 mackerel.

MACKEREL GARUM.This brine, so greatly esteemed by the ancients, was manufactured from various kinds of fishes.

When mackerel was employed, a few of them were placed in a small vase, with a large quantity of salt, which was well stirred, and then left to settle for some hours.

Ascending the high steps to the porch, quite deserted on this damp, unpleasant morning, she entered the store, the proprietor of which immediately jumped up from the mackerel kit at the extreme end of the room, where he had been sitting in converse with some of his neighbors, and hurried behind the counter.

When she had gone, the storekeeper returned to his seat on the mackerel kit, and was accosted by a pensive neighbor in high boots who sat upon the upturned end of a case of brogans.

That's the reason that I like mackerel-fishing, though I have no fondness for mackerels themselves, for they are cannibals.

I think a crew of a fishing-vessel might catch a whole cargo of mackerel, and not cause as much pain as one of their men would suffer in having his leg bitten off by a shark.

And some thirty years later, during a yachting excursion off the Scilly Isles, I saw an even more remarkable duel between a porbeagleas the Cornish people call the mackerel-sharkand a pipit, in which, strange to relate, the bird came off victorious.

The general storekeeper, who was sorting mackerels, straightened up, wiped his briny hands on his apron, and said: 'I expect there's goin' to be a lecture.

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