Barbel

Ingredients

• 1/2 pint port wine
• a saltspoonful of salt
• 2 tablespoonful vinegar
• 2 sliced onions
• a faggot of sweet herbs
• nutmeg and mace to taste
• the juice of a lemon
• 2 anchovies
• 1-2 barbels, according to size

Instructions

1. Boil the barbels in salt and water till done;
2. pour off some of the water, and, to the remainder, put the ingredients mentioned above.
3. Simmer gently for 1/2 hour, or rather more, and strain.
4. Put in the fish;
5. heat it gradually; but do not let it boil, or it will be broken.