Boiled Black Bass
Ingredients
1 onion
8 peppercorns
1 blade of mace
1 tbsp flour
1 tbsp butter
1 cp water used for boiling bass
salt, pepper, and celery salt
1/2 cp milk or cream
pinch of soda
Instructions
1 - In boiling the bass, allow 12 minutes for each pound of fish.
2 - Cook it in water with 1 onion, 8 peppercorns, and 1 blade of mace.
3 - Serve it with a gravy made as follows:
4 - Blend 1 tbsp flour with 1 tbsp butter; then stir into 1 cp of the water used in boiling the bass.
5 - Add seasoning of salt, pepper, celery salt and last, 1/2 cp of milk or cream in shich you have
dissolved a pinch of soda.
6 - Let it come to the boiling point before serving.