Another Fish Dinner

XXIII. Another Fish Dinner

First Service:

Cooked apples
Fat figs
Grenache wine
Cress and mint
Strained peas
Shad
Salted eel
Herrings
Fat peas
White broth over perch
Dried perch in a sauce over fried fish

Second Service:

Freshwater and saltwater fish
Jellied eels
Stuffed fish in hot sauce
Tench in soup
Crayfish
Bream pies
Plaice in water

Third Service:

Frumenty with porpoise
Rich pasties
Roast mackerel
Roast pompano and thin pancakes
Oysters
Fried dried fish
Crisp pastry of pike

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

XXIII. Another Fish Dinner.

First service. Cooked apples, fat figs, Grenache wine, cress and mint, strained peas, shad, salted eel, herrings and fat peas, a white broth over perch, and dried perch in a sauce over fried fish.

Second service. Freshwater fish the best you can get and saltwater fish, jellied eels, stuffed fish in hot sauce, tench in soup, crayfish, bream pies and plaice in water.

Third service. Frumenty with porpoise, rich pasties and roast mackerel, pompano in a roast and thin pancakes, oysters, fried dried fish with a crisp pastry of pike.