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Kingfish, Trouville

Clean, wash and dry well two medium-sized fresh kingfish of one and a half pounds each. Place them in a frying pan with half pint hot water, half gill white wine, half ounce butter, one tablespoon vinegar, a teaspoon salt and a saltspoon cayenne pepper. Set in the oven and bake for twenty-five minutes. Remove, lift the fish with a skimmer, lay on a hot dish and keep warm. Heat one tablespoon melted butter in a small saucepan, add two tablespoons flour, briskly stir, then strain the fish gravy into this roux and briskly whisk while heating for two minutes; let boil for ten minutes. Dilute one egg yolk with the juice half sound lemon and add to the sauce; stir well again. Plunge eighteen freshly opened Little Neck clams into boiling water for two minutes, take up, drain and add to the sauce; lightly mix. Then pour the sauce over the fish and serve very hot.