Shew mee a way to keepe Oisters, lobsters, and such like, sweet and good for some few dayes?
Oisters, as Maister Plat sayeth, may be pre∣serued good a long time, if they be barrelled
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Oisters, as Maister Plat sayeth, may be pre∣serued good a long time, if they be barrelled
vp, and some of the brackish water, where they are taken, powred amongst them. Or else you may pile them vp in finall roundelets with the hollow partes of the shelles vpward, casting salt amongst them at euery lay which they make. You may keepe lobsters, shrimpes, and such like fish, if you wrappe them souerally in sweet and course ragges first moystened in strong brine, and then you must burie these clothes, and couer them in some coole and moyst place with sand.