Fish, how to choose and how to dress / by Piscator, author of "The practical angler," etc. etc.

Date:
1843
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Credit: Fish, how to choose and how to dress / by Piscator, author of "The practical angler," etc. etc. Source: Wellcome Collection.

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    former sometimes reaching as much as 30 and the latter 151bs ; though half those pro- portions may he taken as the usual average of the adult fishes. The rawlin pollack is not a fish that is held in very high estimation, though it cer- tainly eats much better when salted, than when perfectly fresh: indeed, when pickled. Sir R. Bonnycastle as we before stated, con- siders it decidedly superior to the Newfound- land cod. The almost general rule as to fishes of the cod kind, “the greater the size the better the fish,” is completely reversed in the whiting pollack, as the larger he grows the coarser he becomes. The small ones indeed, and which are sometimes taken of a size no larger than sprats, are delicious when nicely fried ; nor are those from a half a pound to two or three pounds weight at all amiss when powdered with salt a day or tw7o before they are used, and cooked either boiled, fried or broiled. Indeed, a lusty fish when in high condition is by no means to be despised, and the ill repute the full grown fishes of this kind have acquired, is, from their being often taken and eaten when they are out of season, which they are during the w7hole of the summer months; as they recover from spawning, which occurs in the spring season.