This is an excerpt from The Prince of Transylvania's Court Cookbook
(Hungary, 16th c.)
The original source can be found at
MedievalCookery.com
Fried eel. Do the same with the meat. I told you how to fry fish. You can make fruit or ginger sauce for this. Foreign nations do it in lots of ways; but here, we hadn't learned this. The poor can eat only what's in their bag.