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[a] ++The keruer of fysshe must se to pessene & fourmentye the tayle
and y^e lyuer: ye must loke [b] yf there be a salte purpos, or sele
turrentyne, & do after y^e fourme of venyson / baken herynge, laye it
hole vpon your soueraynes trenchour / whyte hery{n}ge in a disshe, open
it by y^e backe, pyke out the bones & the rowe, & se there be mustarde.
Of salte fysshe, grene fysshe, salt samon & congre, pare away y^e skyn /
salte fysshe, stocke fysshe, marlynge, makrell, and hake, with butter:
take awaye the bones & the skynnes. A pyke, laye y^e wombe vpon his
trenchour w{i}t{h} pyke sauce ynoughe. A salte [Fol. B 4.] lampraye,
gobone it flatte in .vii. or .viii. peces, & lay it to your souerayne.
A playce, put out the water / than crosse hym with your knyfe, caste on
salte & wyne or ale. [c] Gornarde, rochet, breme, cheuene, base, molet,
roche, perche, sole, makrell & whytynge, haddocke and codlynge, reyse
them by the backe, & pyke out the bones, & clense the refet in y^e bely.
[d] Carpe, breme, sole, & troute, backe & belly togyder. Samon, congre,
sturgyon, turbot, thorpole, thornebacke, hou{n}de-fysshe, & halybut, cut
them in the dysshe as y^e porpas aboute / tenche in his sauce, cut it /
eles & lamprayes roost, pull of the skynne, pyke out y^e bones, put
therto vyneger & poudre. [e] A crabbe, breke hym a-sonder in to a
dysshe, make y^e shelle clene, & put in the stuffe agayne, tempre it
with vynegre & pouder, than couer it with brede, and sende it to the
kytchyn to hete / than set it to your souerayne, and breke the grete
clawes, and laye them in a disshe. [f] A creues, dyght hym thus: departe
hym a-sonder, & slytee[P] the belly, and take out y^e fysshe; pare away
the reed skynne, and mynce it thynne; put vynegre in the dysshe, and set
in on y^e table w{i}t{h}out hete. A Iol of sturgyon, cut it in thynne
morselles, & lay it rou{n}de aboute the dysshe. Fresshe lampraye bake:
open y^e pasty / than take whyte brede, and cut it thynne, & lay it in a
dysshe, & [g] with a spone take out galentyne, & lay it vpon the brede
with reed wyne & poudre of synamon / than cut a gobone of the lampraye,
& mynce the gobone thynne, and laye it in the galentyne; than set it
vpo{n} the fyre to hete. [h] Fresshe herynge with salte & wyne /
shrympes wel pyked, flou{n}dres, gogyons, menewes & musceles, eles and
lamprayes: [i] sprottes is good in sewe / musculade in wortes / oystres
i{n} ceuy, oysters in grauy, menewes in porpas, samo{n} & seele, gelly
[Fol. B 4b.] whyte and reede, creme of almo{n}des, [k] dates in
comfetes, peres and quynces in syrupe, with percely rotes; mortrus of
houndes fysshe, ryse standynge.
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