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Whiting, with Caper Sauce

Cleanse, scrape, and dry two full-sized whiting, and with a sharp knife score them on both sides to the depth of a quarter of an inch. Season with pepper and salt, lay them in a buttered baking-dish, and pour over them a large wine-glassful of light wine. Put them in the oven, and bake gently till done enough. Make the third of a pint of melted butter, stir into it the liquor from the fish, and add two table-spoonfuls of bruised capers. Pour it over the fish, and serve. Time to bake the fish, a quarter of an hour. Probable cost, whitings, 4d. to 8d. each. Sufficient for two or three persons.