To dress a COD'S HEAD.

Take a cod's head, wash and clean it, take out the gills, cut it open, and make it to lie flat; (if you have no conveniency of boiling it you may do it in an oven, and it will be as well or better) put it into a copper-dish or earthen one, lie upon it a littler butter, salt, and flour, and when it is enough take off the skin.

SAUCE for the COD'S HEAD.

Another SAUCE for a COD'S HEAD.

To dress COD'S ZOONS.

At the Top stew'd Tench and Cod's Head.

Cod's Head or Salmon.

Cherries, to preserve for drying to preserve to dry Colliflower to pickle white another Way Chickens to fricassy white do brown surprize to boil + Pie hot Collops Scotch, to make another Way another Way Collops minc'd, to make Cod's Head, to dress Zoons, do.

Sauce for a Rump of Beef Sauce for Neck of Veal for Turkey for boil'd Rabbits for Pike Sauce for boil'd Salmon or Turbot for Haddock or Cod for Salmon or Turbot for tame Ducks for green Goose another Way for Chickens for Turkey, another Way for Tongues for Cod's Head for a Cod's Head another Way for Flesh or Fish Soop Vermicelly Hare green Pease Onion do.

COD'S HEAD AND SHOULDERS.

COD'S HEAD AND SHOULDERS.

Mock Turtle Soup, removed by Cod's Head and Shoulders. Stewed Eels.

Mock-Turtle Soup, removed by Cod's Head and Shoulders and Oyster Sauce. Stewed Eels.

THE PASSING OF THE COD'S HEAD.

It was because the dustman did not come; It was because our cat was overfed, And, gorged with some superior pabulum, Declined to touch the cod's disgusting head; It was because the weather was too warm To hide the horror in the refuse-bin, And too intense the perfume of its form, My wife commanded me to do the sin, To take and cast it in the twinkling Thames A practice which the neighbourhood condemns.

Who would have said a cod's head could not float?

Nor has it on the other hand that fine falling off flakiness, that oleaginous peeling off (as it were, like a sea onion), which endears your cod's head & shoulders to some appetites; that manly firmness, combined with a sort of womanish coming-in-pieces, which the same cod's head & shoulders hath, where the whole is easily separable, pliant to a knife or a spoon, but each individual flake presents a pleasing resistance to the opposed tooth.

Nor has it on the other hand that fine falling off flakiness, that oleaginous peeling off (as it were, like a sea onion), which endears your cod's head & shoulders to some appetites; that manly firmness, combined with a sort of womanish coming-in-pieces, which the same cod's head & shoulders hath, where the whole is easily separable, pliant to a knife or a spoon, but each individual flake presents a pleasing resistance to the opposed tooth.

"An' if any committee puts its noz into my back-yard, if it doant get the biggest cod's innards as I can collar hold on, about its ears, my name is not Treluddra!

From this period all treatises on cookery are full of the same kind of receipts for making "pies of young chickens, of fresh venison, of veal, of eels, of bream and salmon, of young rabbits, of pigeons, of small birds, of geese, and of narrois" (a mixture of cod's liver and hashed fish).

Man's activity, like the cod's, turns too readily to slumber; he is much too fond of unconditioned ease; and so the Lord gives him a comrade like a catfish, to stimulate, rouse, and drive to creation, as a devil may.

These foes of England could live easily for years on oatmeal, sour milk, and cod's heads, while the fighting clothes of a whole regiment would have been a scant wardrobe for the Greek Slave, and after two centuries of almost uninterrupted carnage their war debt was only a trifle over eight dollars.

Eat fish in Fish Street, especially lobsters, Colchester oysters, and a fresh cod's head.

to the effect that, whereas a cod's head could be bought for fourpence, the condiments recommended for it were not to be had for less than nine shillings.

Next to turbot, a cod's head and shoulders is the handsomest dish of fish brought to table.