Baked Sardines

Skin a dozen sardines, put them on a dish in the oven, and heat them through.
Put the oil from the sardines into a small saucepan, and when it boils mix in one
breakfast cupful of water ; stir it over the fire until thick, then add one teaspoonful
of Worcestershire sauce, and season with salt and cayenne pepper ; move the saucepan
from the fire, and add the yolk of an egg that has been beaten together with
one teaspoonful each of vinegar and mustard. Take the dish of sardines out of the
oven, pour the sauce over them and serve while hot.