Name: To Bake Pike
Ingredients: 1 pike, scaled and cleaned; Forcemeat No. 1 or 3, or oyster forcemeat (from Chapter VIII)

To Bake Pike

Ingredients

1 pike, scaled and cleaned
Forcemeat No. 1 or 3, or oyster forcemeat (from Chapter VIII)

Directions

Remove the gills from the pike and open it just enough to clean the inside.
Wipe the fish dry and hang it in a cool place for 1-2 hours, or wrap it in a soft cloth.
Fill the body of the pike with the chosen forcemeat.
Sew the opening closed.

Recipe from a historical cookbook (Internet Archive).

Transcribed from a scanned cookbook and modernised for today's kitchens. Where the book gave no heat or time, or said "a moderate oven", the temperatures and times here may be modern equivalents rather than the book's own figures.