pickled fish, noun phrase

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Also pickle fish.
A traditional dish of fish prepared with onions in a vinegar sauce and flavoured with curry powder, turmeric, and other spices; ingelegde vis.
1887 [see shad].
1891 H.J. Duckitt Hilda’s ‘Where Is It?’ 71Fish (Pickled)...Lay your fish in layers in a jar, pour over each layer some of the mixture. Take care to have it well corked, and it will keep for months.
1950 H. Gerber Cape Cookery 74Pickled fish: For this old Cape favourite choose any firm fish such as snoek, Cape Salmon, Kabeljou, albacore.
1964 L.G. Green Old Men Say 128Pickled fish is another traditional Cape curry with a local origin. Vinegar, curry powder, cornflour, sugar and salt, thinly-sliced onions and bay leaves are cooked for a short period with fried fish.
1977 Darling 8 June 118Pickled fish..must be one of our oldest traditional fish recipes and if you know how to make it, it comes in very handy on holiday, as it’s also a way of preserving fish.
1982 D. Kramer Short Back & Sides 21We were offered bredies and pickled fish (recipes from Leipoldt’s Cape Cookery) by women wearing bonnets and aprons in matching country floral prints probably designed by Mary Quant.
1988 F. Williams Cape Malay Cookbk 7Malay cooks..used the exotic spices of the land of their birth to create such well-known dishes as bobotie, sosaties and pickled fish, which were almost always accompanied by chilli atjars, blatjangs and sambals.
A traditional dish of fish prepared with onions in a vinegar sauce and flavoured with curry powder, turmeric, and other spices; ingelegde vis.
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