To bake a Carp otherways to be eaten hot

Name: To bake a Carp otherways to be eaten hot
Ingredients: raisins; barberries; verjuyce; butter; claret; sugar; carps; white-wine; nutmegs; bread; sweet herbs; yolks of eggs; capers; currans; fresh eel; pistaches; cold butter; paste; grapes; gooseberries; lemon; orange; mace; dates; salt; pepper; nutmeg; carp

Preparation info

Difficulty
Easy

Appears in

The Accomplisht Cook

By Robert May

Published 1660

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Method

Take a carp, scale it alive, and scrape off the slime, draw it, and take away the gall and guts, scotch it, and season it with nutmeg, pepper, and salt