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After the foregoing instruction or word of advise, followeth the Method of the Pastry-work for fish, concer∣ning Pies and Tourts, ac∣cording to the contents of the foregoing Table.
AFter your fish is dressed, lard it with Eele or Carp, seasoned with peper, salt, and beaten cloves, then put it in paste, and over it a bay leaf, and good fresh butter, or beaten lard, according to the day as you will use it; besprinkle it with lard, with a drop of vinegar, and close it up after the form of the fish; after it is baked, serve it warme or cold.
The pies of Troute, Becare, Carp, and Stur∣geon, are made up alike.
Dress your Dab, and slit it on the top; if you will, lard it with Eele well seasoned, then dresse up your pie according to the bignesse of your Dab, and put it in it, well seasoned with salt, peper, cloves, fine hearbs, mush∣rums, morils, a little parsley fryed with fresh butter, mousserons, bottomes of artichocks,