Primary Text: The housekeeper's guide to the fish market for each month of the year : and some account of fish and fisheries, to which are added a few excellent recipes for cooking some sorts of fish: Preface

Primary Text: The housekeeper's guide to the fish market for each month of the year : and some account of fish and fisheries, to which are added a few excellent recipes for cooking some sorts of fish: Preface

An 1883 "Housekeeper's Guide" to navigating the local fish markets and the seasonality of various fish in the British Isles. The full text contains seasonal calendars and a variety of recipes for the most common fish.

John C. Bellamy

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THE HOUSEKEEPER'S GUIDE TO THE FISH MARKET FOR EACH MONTH OF THE YEAR : AND SOME ACCOUNT OF FISH AND FISHERIES, TO WHICH ARE ADDED A FEW EXCELLENT Recipes for Cooking some sorts of Fish. BY THE LATE J. C. BELLAMY, F.R.C.S., Author of " Natural History of South Devon," &c. &c. EDITED AND REVISED BY SOMERS BELLAMY, Author of " The New Sheksperian Dictionary," &c. &c. London: CITY OF LONDON PUBLISHING COMPANY, LIMITED, 5, FRIAR STREET, BROADWAY, E.C. ; AND BLOOMSBURY MANSION, HART STREET, W.C.

CONTENTS. PAGE INTRODUCTORY REMARKS. 1.-Economical Register and Monthly List. 17.—Table showing the months in which Fishes: are “in season.' 21.-Observations respecting the seasons in which Fishes are edible.—Fish as a Diet. 26.—Considerations connected with the econo- mical importance of our Fisheries. 34.—Migrations of Fishes. 40.-Table of the Migration of the Salmon and Peal. 44.-Economical Uses of some Fishes, in addi- tion to their common consumption. 46.-Some Baits. 49.-Memoranda respecting Fishes, &c. 56.--Additional Memoranda by the Editor. 73.—Memoranda respecting Fly-Fishing. 74.-Appendix-Law relating' to Salmon Fish- eries, &c. 77.—Recipes for cooking some sorts of Fish, culled by the Editor. A 2

PREFACE. "The author of this little book hopes it is :supererogation to suggest an apology for its production, or to argue the importance of his :subject. Every civilised community should, he thinks, be aware of the natural resources which surround it,-offering to the mercan- tile, the trading, the industrious, and even the wealthier classes much of the means of their support. He here brings under the notice of the Merchant the character and circumstances of our fisheries,-produces to the Fishmonger statements affecting his immediate interests, -offers to the Man of Science certain facts and views calculated to promote the study of fishes,-bears to the Community at large such practical information as intimately concerns Domestic Economy,—and ap- proaches the Fisherman of all estates and denominations with a few items referring to his avocations. If further pleas for the production of this work are required of him, besides those above named, he points to the importance of gathering together the scattered items of the statistical conditions of the community,

PREFACE. to the undeniable need which exists for records respecting Ictluyology, whereby science may be advanced, to the demand the interests of public health make for an index which shall guide the purchase of a food variable in quality from excellence to noxiousness, in nearly all species, according to “season,” to the probably neglected sources of profit and economical arrangement, and lastly to the glaring necessity the whole condition of the Fisheries exhibits, for the appointment of legal restraints on certain practises, and of suited officers to watch the application and results of these. The tribe of fishes, greatly secluded as they are from human view, are in a very different position as respects a recorded his- tory of their numbers, habits, characters, &c., from other classes of creatures. No instru- ment has yet been devised by which our vision can penetrate the recesses of their element, and, the means we possess for withdrawing them from their abodes are particularly scanty. Observers of Nature situated like myself, under the control of restraining circumstances, cannot possibly possess themselves of very extensive information regarding the Icthyology of a country like this, presenting at once a marine and a fluviatile department: a daily pursuit of the subject by the most active measures, would alone, after the lapse of years, enable a

PREFACE. vii Naturalist to acquire a fund of facts of which he could fairly boast. A great number of circumstances in the history of the tribe .conspire, also, to restrict our knowledge of it, the whole class being replete with irregu- larity of conduct. The construction of a calendar for the months will not apply rigidly to all English fisheries, as respects times of migratory and other proceedings; the males and the young of some species observe rules of their own in their move- ments ; the period allotted to spawning extends, in some species, over a considerable range of time ; some spawn at two or more different periods ; some are interfered with by circumstance of food and temperature ; hence the uncertainty of many statements even when experience is considerable. Few families or genera of fishes seem to own any common instinct or one common propensity in regard of general habits, and, though we well know that “all discord” is “harmony not understood,” we are sometimes apt to think that confusion and caprice pervade the economy of the waters. JOHN CREMER BELLAMY, F.R.C.S.

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