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Sheepshead, Mariniere

Scale and bone a three-pound piece fresh sheepshead, place in a sautoire, add one ounce butter, one gill white wine, the juice of quarter of a lemon, half a teaspoon salt and three saltspoons pepper. Cover the fish with a sheet of buttered paper, boil for five minutes, set in oven for fifteen minutes, then bring it to the oven door. Add twelve freshly opened mussels, six freshly opened oysters, six shrimps (cooked) and six canned mushrooms. Reset in the oven for ten minutes more, remove, lift fish with a skimmer, place on a dish and keep hot.

Mix in a small saucepan one tablespoon melted butter with two tablespoons flour, strain the fish liquor into pan, add a gill cream, mix until it comes to a boil, then add the garnishing; lightly mix, cook for two minutes, pour over the fish, sprinkle a little freshly chopped parsley over all and serve.