Broiled Carp

Preparation info
  • Serves

    8

    • Difficulty

      Easy

Appears in
English Provincial Cooking

By Elisabeth Ayrton

Published 1980

  • About

From the Middle Ages until the nineteenth century almost all great houses had their “stews”, or fish ponds, and carp was one of the largest and most popular of the fish bred in them. Most well-to-do households, therefore, ate a fairly elaborately served carp four or five times a year. Today, most good fish shops will get a carp of two to eight pounds (1 to 4<