Baked Red Snapper Recipe

Instructions

1. Draw, clean, and then wipe a 5-pound red snapper.
2. Wash it inside and out with salad-oil and lemon.
3. Make a stuffing of 1 well-beaten egg, 1 cup of drained and chopped oysters, and half a cup of powdered crackers.
4. Add a tablespoon of butter, a teaspoon of onion juice, a teaspoon of salt, 1 tablespoon of minced parsley, 1/8 teaspoon of paprika; moisten with cream and the oyster liquor until it is quite moist.
5. After the fish is filled with the dressing sew the edges together.
6. Put a layer of minced fat pork, together with a few slices of tomato and onion, on the grating of the roaster.
7. Place the fish on this, and dredge the top with flour and salt, and place more minced pork on the top.
8. Add a cup of hot water and bake for about an hour in a hot oven, basting often.
9. Serve with Hollandaise sauce.