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Another Fish Dinner

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XXII. Another Fish Dinner


First Service:

Strained peas, herring, thick soup, salted eels, oysters, a salmi of pike and carp

Second Service:

Freshwater fish
Smoked eels
Rich pasties
Portioned fricassee
An arbalester
Pies
Fritters

Third Service:

Roast seafood ?
Smothered rice
Tarts
Fried bread slices
Meat tarts
Salmon and bream pies
A hotpot

Third Service:

Chopped vegetables
Thin pancakes
Little sausages
Endive
Fried loach
Browned vegetables
Congers and turbot with sugar
Lombardy tarts
Jellied eels


[Source: Menagier de Paris, J. Hinson (trans.)]

XXII. Another Fish Dinner.

First service. Strained peas, herring, thick soup, salted eels, oysters, a salmi of pike and carp.

Second service. Freshwater fish, smoked eels, rich pasties and portioned fricassee, an arbalester, pies, fritters.

Third service. Roast the best, etc., smothered rice, tarts, fried bread slices and meat tarts, salmon and bream pies, a hotpot.

Fourth service. Chopped [vegetables], thin pancakes, little sausages, endive, fried loach, browned [vegetables], congers and turbot with sugar [or cypress, depending on which version of the manuscript you like]; Lombardy tarts, jellied eels.