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[Varona <mid...@co...>]

His direction how to roste him when he is caught, is choicely good, for
I have tryed it, and it is somewhat the better for not being common; but
with my direction you must take this Caution, that your Pike must not be
a smal one. _First open your _Pike_ at the gills, and if need be, cut
also a little slit towards his belly; out of these, take his guts, and
keep his liver, which you are to shred very small with _Time_, _Sweet
Margerom_, and a little _Winter-Savoury_; to these put some pickled
_Oysters_, and some _Anchovis_, both these last whole (for the
_Anchovis_ will melt, and the _Oysters_ should not) to these you must
add also a pound of sweet _Butter_, which you are to mix with the herbs
that are shred, and let them all be well salted (if the _Pike_ be more
then a yard long, then you may put into these herbs more then a pound,
or if he be less, then less _Butter_ will suffice:) these being thus
mixt, with a blade or two of Mace, must be put into the _Pikes_ belly,
and then his belly sowed up; then you are to thrust the spit through his
mouth out at his tail; and then with four, or five, or six split sticks
or very thin laths, and a convenient quantitie of tape or filiting,
these laths are to be tyed roundabout the _Pikes_ body, from his head to
his tail, and the tape tied somewhat thick to prevent his breaking or
falling off from the spit; let him be rosted very leisurely, and often
basted wi