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Carp Pie

Line the edges of a pie-dish with a good light crust. Stuff a medium-sized carp with oyster forcemeat, sew it up to prevent this escaping, and lay it in the middle of the dish. Put round it pieces of eel about an inch and a half in length, which have been already partly cooked. Take three-quarters of a pint of the liquor in which the eel was stewed, put with it a cupful of port, a little salt and cayenne, an onion stuck with four cloves, and a blade of mace. Let these simmer gently until they are reduced to half a pint of gravy, which may be thickened with a little flour and butter. Pour this over the fish, cover with crust, and bake in a moderate oven for one hour. Sufficient for four or five persons.