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The recipe details for a whole, round white fish such as sea bass, snapper or sea bream that was cleaned and then gutted. The fish is seasoned with thyme being inserted into the cavity of the fish prior to the salt crust encapsulating it in two pounds of salt glued together with water and egg whites. [7]
Drying or salting, either with dry salt or with brine, was the only widely available method of preserving fish until the 19th century. Dried fish and salted fish (or fish both dried and salted) are a staple of diets in the Caribbean , West Africa , North Africa , South Asia , Southeast Asia , Southern China , Scandinavia , parts of Canada ...
Garos may have been a type of fish, or a fish sauce similar to garum. [11] Pliny stated that garum was made from fish intestines, with salt, creating a liquor, the garum, and the fish paste named (h)allec or allex (similar to bagoong, this paste was a byproduct of fish sauce production).
This recipe promises to be rich, buttery and bursting with flavor, without any complicated techniques or hard-to-find ingredients. First, sauté some chopped onion, garlic, salt and pepper in butter.
As opposed to dry salting, fish brining or wet-salting is performed by immersion of fish into brine, or just sprinkling it with salt without draining the moisture. To ensure long-term preservation, the solution has to contain at least 20% of salt, a process called "heavy salting" in fisheries; heavy-salted fish must be desalted in cold water or ...
The first French recipe, written in verse by Gace de La Bigne, mentions in the same pâté three great partridges, six fat quail, and a dozen larks. Le Ménagier de Paris mentions pâtés of fish, game, young rabbit, fresh venison, beef, pigeon, mutton, veal, and pork, and even pâtés of lark, turtledove, baby bird, goose, and hen.
Instead the salmon is "buried" in a dry marinade of salt, sugar, and dill, and cured for between twelve hours and a few days. As the salmon cures, osmosis moves moisture out of the fish and into the salt and sugar, turning the dry mixture into a highly concentrated brine , which can be used in Scandinavian cooking as part of a sauce . [ 6 ]
Fish bagoong is prepared by mixing salt with fish, [6] and placing it inside large earthen fermentation jars. [7] There it is left to ferment for 30–90 days with occasional stirring to make sure the salt is spread evenly. [8] A food colouring called angkak is added to give the bagoong its characteristic red or pink colour.