Planked Shad

Ingredients

• 1 shad with backbone removed
• 4 tablespoons butter (56g)
• few drops onion juice
• 1 tablespoon salt
• 2 tablespoons finely chopped parsley
• 2 tablespoons white wine
• few grains cayenne

Method

1. Wipe shad; place skin side down on oak plank.
2. Sprinkle with salt and pepper; spread with butter.
3. Cook in hot oven twenty to thirty minutes.
4. Brown with a salamander (Overhead grill).
5. Spread with parsley and white wine.
6. Garnish with highly seasoned hot mashed potato pressed through a pastry bag and tube. Also radishes cut in shape of roses, lemons cut in shape of crescents and dipped in chopped parsley, and sprigs of parsley.

Title

Lowney’s Cook Book

Author

Maria Willet Howard