Boiled Blue Fish.
Sew up the fish neatly in a thin cloth, put on in scalding water with a little salt, half a small cup of vinegar, a quarter of an onion, six whole black peppers, and a blade of mace. Let it stand, just below boiling heat, half an hour; then increase the heat and boil thirty minutes more. Take out, unwrap, lay upon a hot dish and pour over it a cupful of drawn butter, with a little lemon-juice stirred in it.