65 Fresh Cod
Is good boiled, fried, baked, or made into a chowder. It is too dry a fish to broil.
66 Halibut
Is nice cut in slices, and broiled or fried; the fins and the thick part, are good boiled.
67 Striped and Sea Bass
Are good fried, boiled, broiled, baked or made into a chowder.
68 Black Fish
Black fish are the best fried, or boiled, they will do to broil but are not so nice as cooked in any other way.
69 Shad
Fresh shad are the best bloated and broiled; but they are good boiled or fried, the spawn and liver are nice fried in lard. Salt shad is good boiled, without any soaking, if liked quite salt, if not pour on scalding water, and let them soak in it, half an hour, then drain off the water, and boil them twenty minutes. Salt shad and mackerel for broiling, should be soaked twenty four hours, in cold water, the water should be changed several times. To salt twenty five shad, mix one pound of sugar, a peck of rock salt, two quarts of fine salt, and quarter of a pound of salt petre. Put a layer of it at the bottom of the keg, then a layer of shad, with the skin side down, sprinkle on the mixed salt, sugar, and salt petre, and so on till you get in all the shad. Lay a heavy weight on the shad, to keep it under brine. If there is not brine enough in the course of a week, add a little more sugar, salt, and salt petre.