197. To stew a Dish of Breams.
Take your Breams and dress them, and dry them well, and salt them; then make a Charcoal Fire, and lay them on the Grid iron over the Fire being very hot; let them be indifferent brown on both sides, then put a Glass of Claret into a Pewter dish, and set it over the Fire to boyl, put into it 2 or 3 Anchovies, as many Onions, and about half a pint of Gravy, a pint of Oy∣sters, with a little Thyme minced small, when it hath boyled a while put to it a little melted Butter and Nut∣meg: Then dish your Bream, and pour all this upon it, and then set it again on the Fire, putting some yolks of Eggs over it.