Cherviled Pike

• 1 large bunch fresh chervil
• Grated rind and juice of 1 Valencia orange
• 2

Chop the stems of the chervil and reserve the leaves; mix together the chervil stems, orange rind, butter, and salt to taste; pepper the mixture generously and stuff way up into the cavity of the pike. Thread a trussing needle with fine kitchen string. Pass the needle through the head and tail, pull tightly so the fish curves into a full circle, and tie. Set in a nonmetallic baking plate or dis