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To Bake Eles

This eel pie is has a wonderful combination of subtle flavors.

Country: England
Century: 16th

• 2 lbs eel, cut into slivers
• 1/2 cup onion, finely chopped
• 1/2 cup raisins
• 1 tsp pepper
• 1 tsp ginger
• 1/2 tsp salt
• 1 1/2 Tbsp butter
• Pie crust

Mix all indgredients, except the butter, together and put into pie crust. Put butter over mixture and cover pie. Bake at 350 for 45-50 minutes (or until eel is cooked).

Original Recipe sources

Source [ A NEVV BOOKE Of Cookerie, T. Gloning (transcr.)]: To bake Eeles. Cut your Eeles about the length of your finger: season them with Pepper, Salt, and Ginger, and so put them into a Coffin, with a good piece of sweet Butter. Put into your Pye great Razins of the Sunne, and an Onyon minst small, and so close it and bake it.