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This is an excerpt from Le Viandier de Taillevent
(France, ca. 1380 - James Prescott, trans.)
The original source can be found at
James Prescott's website
Fresh salmon. Smoked (keep the chine for roasting), cut into steaks, and then cooked in water; [add] some wine and salt while cooking; eaten with Yellow Pepper [Sauce] or Cameline [Sauce]. Some dry it again (for eating) on the grill. In a pie (if you wish) powdered with spices; eaten with Cameline [Sauce].
If it is salted: cooked in water without salt; eaten with wine and chopped scallion.
Other versions of this recipe:
Diz ist ein gut spise von eime lahs (This is a good food of a salmon) (Ein Buch von guter spise)
FRESH SALMON should be smoked (Le Menagier de Paris)