Halibut Recipe

According to the quantity of fat it contains, fish may be divided into two classes, Dry or lean fish, and Oily fish.

Cod, haddock, smelt, flounder, perch, bass, brook trout,pike are dry, or lean fish.

Salmon, shad, mackerel, herring, eel, halibut, lake trout, and white fish are oily fish.

This latter group contains from 5 to 10 per cent of fat.

Fish may also be divided into two classes, according to the water in which they live, fish from the sea being termed 'salt-water fish', and those from rivers and lakes are 'fresh-water fish'




Halibut is a Oily sea water fish.



BAKED HALIBUT RECIPE.

Because of its size, halibut is cut into slices and sold in the form of steaks. Halibut slices are often sauted, but they make a delicious dish when baked with tomatoes and flavored with onion, lemon, and bay leaf.
2 c. tomatoes
Few slices onion
1 bay leaf
1 tsp. salt
1/8 tsp. pepper
2 thin slices bacon
1 Tb. flour
2 lb. halibut steak
Heat the tomatoes, onion, and bay leaf in water. Add the salt and pepper and cook for a few minutes. Cut the bacon into small squares, try it out in a pan, and into this fat stir the flour. Pour this into the hot mixture, remove the bay leaf, and cook until the mixture thickens. Put the steaks into a baking dish, pour the sauce over them, and bake in a slow oven for about 45 minutes. Remove with the sauce to a hot platter and serve.