MIDSUMMER QUARTER

The Art Of Cookery · Hannah Glasse · 1747
Source
The Art Of Cookery
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Ingredients (22)
fish
seafood
meat
Instructions (5)
  1. Sturgeon is a fish commonly found in the northern seas; but now and then we find them in our great rivers, the Thames, the Severn, and the Tyne.
  2. This fish is of a very large size, and will sometimes measure eighteen or ten length.
  3. They are much esteemed when fresh, cut in pieces, roasted or baked, or pickled for cold treats.
  4. The cavier is esteemed a dainty, which is the spawn of this fish.
  5. The latter end of this quarter comes smelts.
Original Text
MIDSUMMER QUARTER. TURBUTS and trouts, foals, gribs, ſhadlins and glout, tenes, ſalmon, dolphin, flying-fiſh, ſheep head, pollis, both land and ſea, ſturgeon, ſeals, chubb, lobſters and crabs. Sturgeon is a fiſh commonly found in the northern ſeas; but now and then we find them in our great rivers, the Thames, the Severn, and the Tyne. This fiſh is of a very large ſize, and will ſometimes meaſure eighteen or ten length. They are much eſ- teemed when freſh, cut in pieces, roaſted or baked, or pick- led for cold treats. The cavier is eſteem'd a dainty, which is the ſpawn of this fiſh. The latter end of this quarter comes ſmelts.
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