Shad, Baked
INGREDIENTS for dish for 6 persons. A medium-sized shad, lb. of salt pork, 1 oz. of butter, 2 oz. of bread-crumbs, a glass of port wine, flour, pepper and salt. AVERAGE COST, 2s. 3d.
Cut the fish open at the gills and wash and scrape it clean, then wipe it with a dry cloth. Make a stuffing with half the pork, the bread-crumbs, chopped parsley and a seasoning of pepper and salt. Fill the fish with this, sew it up, and dredge it with flour, and lay the rest of the pork, cut very thin, over it. Bake 40 minutes in a tin, then lay in a hot dish. Put butter, seasoning, hot water and the wine into the tin to make some gravy, and when it boils, pour it over the fish.
TIME.-40 minutes to bake the fish.
SEASONABLE from April to June.