Name: Pike, Baked
Ingredients: 2 oz coarse sea salt (formerly 'bay salt'); 1 oz moist sugar; ½ oz saltpetre; 2 sheeps' tongues

Pike, Baked

Ingredients

2 oz coarse sea salt (formerly 'bay salt')
1 oz moist sugar
½ oz saltpetre
2 sheeps' tongues

Directions

Trim the roots of the tongues and rub them well with salt.
Let the tongues sit for 24 hours.
Mix the coarse sea salt, moist sugar, and saltpetre together.
Rub the mixture into the tongues and repeat daily for 9 to 10 days.
When ready, wash the tongues thoroughly and cook as directed for sheeps' tongues.

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.