Planked Shad
Ingredients
Directions
Preheat your grill or oven to a medium-high heat.
Attach the shad to a thick oak board using white tacks or wooden pegs.
Grill or bake the shad on the board until cooked through.
When ready to serve, carefully remove the tacks or pegs and serve the shad on the oak plank.
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.
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