don’t like fishing bones out of the
soup can use filleted fish.
A MEDITERRANEAN FISH SOUP
A cod’s head, a cooked crawfish, 2
pints cockles or mussels, 1 pint
prawns, 1 pimento, 1½ lb tomatoes, a
lemon, a few celery leaves, a carrot, 2
onions, 6 cloves of garlic, 3 tablespoons
rice, coarse salt, ground black pepper,
thyme, marjoram, basil, fennel,
parsley, a piece of orange peel, ½ pint
white wine, 4 pints water, saffron,
parsley.Make a stock with the cod’s
head, the shells of the crawfish and
the prawns, the celery, onions,
carrot, a slice each of lemon and