Brown Stewed Fish For Fresh Water Fish

Name: Brown Stewed Fish For Fresh Water Fish
Cuisine: null
Ingredients: 2 -3 pound fish; 1/2 pint water; 1 onion; 1 tablespoon oil; 1 tablespoon vinegar; two-pennyworth ginger-bread; one-pennyworth syrup; 1 lemon; pepper, to taste; salt, to taste

Ingredients

2 -3 pound fish
1/2 pint water
1 onion
1 tablespoon oil
1 tablespoon vinegar
two-pennyworth ginger-bread
one-pennyworth syrup
1 lemon
pepper, to taste
salt, to taste

Directions

Peel and cut up the onion, brown it in the oil, put it in the stew-pan with the fish and water, and cook for half an hour.
Soak the ginger-bread in the golden syrup and vinegar ; when soft, beat it up and add the lemon-juice, pepper and salt.
Ten minutes before the fish is ready, pour this sauce on to it, and tilt the stew-pan well backwards and forwards.
Serve cold.