Baked Jack

Ingredients

• A Jack is a small Pike
• three ounces of crumbs
• a teaspoonful of thyme
• the same of marjoram
• enough finely minced suet to represent one quarter of the whole mixture
• About a pint and a half of broth
• an onion
• some herbs

Method

1. 1

   Clean the Jack and prepare the stuffing with crumbs, eggs, thyme, marjoram, salt, pepper, and suet.

2. 2

   Stuff the Jack, sew it up, and place it in a buttered baking dish.

3. 3

   Bake for 20 minutes, basting with fish broth made from other freshwater fish.

As published

This recipe was extracted from Mrs. Roundell's Practical cookery book (1898) by Roundell, Charles Mrs, page 65. The excerpt below is the record exactly as published.

A Jack is a small Pike, and both Jack and Pike should be stuffed. Boiling spoils them: if under four pounds’ weight they should be baked ; if heavier, they should be roasted in the Dutch oven. The amount of stuffing must of course be regulated by the size of the Fish. The simplest stuffing is made of crumbs bound with egg, moistened with suet and seasoned with herbs. See that the Jack is clean and quite dry inside, and calculate what quantity of crumbs will be necessary to fill the cavity without cramming it. Then put the crumbs in a basin, add as many eggs as will bind them thoroughly, allow a teaspoonful of thyme and the same of marjoram to three ounces of crumbs, add salt and pepper in proportion, and allow enough finely minced suet to represent one quarter of the whole mixture. Blend all together, put it into the Jack, and sew up the cavity. Put the Jack into a well -buttered baking-dish. The Fish can be coiled round as Izaak W alton advises, “ with the spit through his mouth and out at his tail,” or, as in these days, with the tail fastened to the mouth. A Jack will take twenty minutes to bake. It must be moistened two inches deep with a fish broth made of other Freshwater Fish, and must be continually basted with the same. The broth should be strong, and can be made of any Freshwater Fish ; even dace can be used for it. About a pint and a half of broth will be wanted, and an onion and some herbs should be simmered in it. A baked Jack

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