This section is from the book "The Boston Cooking-School Cook Book", by Fannie Merritt Farmer. Also available from Amazon: Original 1896 Boston Cooking-School Cook Book.
Clean a four-pound haddock, sprinkle with salt inside and out, stuff, and sew. Cut five diagonal gashes on each side of backbone and insert narrow strips of fat salt pork, having gashes on one side come between gashes on other side. Shape with skewers in form of letter S, and fasten skewers with small twine. Place on greased fish-sheet in a dripping-pan, sprinkle with salt and pepper, brush over with melted butter, dredge with flour, and place around fish small pieces of fat salt pork. Bake one hour in hot oven, basting as soon as fat is tried out, and continue basting every ten minutes. Serve with Drawn Butter, Egg or Hollandaise Sauce. Garnish with lemon and parsley.
1/2 cup cracker crumbs = 4 crackers 1/2 cup stale bread crumbs 1/4 cup melted butter
1/4 teaspoon salt 1/8 teaspoon pepper Few drops onion juice
1/4 cup hot water
Mix ingredients in order given.
1 cup cracker crumbs 1/4 cup melted butter 1/4 teaspoon salt 1/8 teaspoon pepper
Few drops onion juice
Parsley
Capers
1 teaspoon each, finely chopped
Mix ingredients in order given. This makes a dry, crumbly stuffing.
Clean a four-pound bluefish,, stuff, sew, and bake as Baked Halibut with Stuffing, omitting to cut gashes on sides, as the fish is rich enough without addition of pork. Baste often with one-third cup butter melted in two-thirds cup boiling water. Serve with Shrimp Sauce.
Split and bone a bluefish, place on a well-buttered sheet, and cook twenty minutes in a hot oven. Cream one-fourth cup butter, add yolks two eggs, and when well mixed add two tablespoons, each, onion, capers, pickles, and parsley, finely chopped; two tablespoons lemon juice, one tablespoon vinegar, one-half teaspoon salt, and one-third teaspoon paprika. Sprinkle fish with salt, spread with mixture, and continue the baking until fish is done. Remove to serving-dish and garnish with potato balls, cucumber ribbons, lemon cut in fancy shapes, and parsley.
Clean a four-pound bluefish, sprinkle with salt and pepper, and put on buttered fish-sheet in a dripping pan. Add three tablespoons white wine, three tablespoons mushroom liquor, one-half onion finely chopped, eight mushrooms finely chopped, and enough water to allow sufficient liquor in pan. for basting. Bake forty-five minutes in hot oven, basting five times. Serve with Sauce à l'ltalienne.
Baked Cod with Oyster Stuffing Clean a four-pound cod, sprinkle with salt and pepper, brush over with lemon juice, stuff, and sew. Gash, skewer, and bake as Baked Halibut with Stuffing. Serve with Oyster Sauce.
1 cup cracker crumbs 1/4 cup melted butter 1/2 teaspoon salt 1/8 teaspoon pepper
1 1/2 teaspoons lemon juice 1/2 tablespoon finely chopped parsley 1 cup oysters
Add seasonings and butter to cracker crumbs. Clean oysters, and remove tough muscles; add soft parts to mixture, with two tablespoons oyster liquor to moisten.
 
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