FISH STAKES
I have always had an issue with fish prejudice in cooking as all seafood has its merits and the lowly perceived ones also deserve their plaice on a plate.
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An illumination from the Hausbuch der Mendelschen Zwölfbrüderstiftung, Nuremberg, mid-15th century. The image shows an elderly man dressed in a long blue tunic, black hood, and white apron standing in front of a raised masonry hearth. Four pottery cookpots are arranged standing around a fire, and the man is stirring one with a long spoon held in his right hand while adjusting a burning log with his left. A cauldron is suspended from a chain in the background, a vat and another pot stand in the foreground. This is the kind of basic equipment a well-organised kitchen offered a cook, and the pots - earthenware, usually unglazed, designed to stand in the embers - were commonplace. This may well be what Staindl envisions cooking the fish in.
Balthasar Staindl's 1547 cookbook includes a long section on how to boil fish and what salt, vinegar, wine, and unslaked lime have to do with it.
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