This is an excerpt from A Proper newe Booke of Cokerye
(England, mid-16th c.)
The original source can be found at
Thomas Gloning's website
To make pescoddes. Take marybones and pull the mary hole out of them, and cutte it in two partes, then season it with suger, synamon, ginger and a little salte, and make youre paeste as fyne as ye canne, and as shorte and thyn as ye canne, then frye theym in swete suette and caste upon them a lyttle synamon and ginger and so serve them at the table.
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how pescods (A Book of Cookrye)