. California fish and game. Fisheries -- California; Game and game-birds -- California; Fishes -- California; Animal Population Groups; Pêches; Gibier; Poissons. 104 CALIFORNIA FISH AND GAME. TRY SHAD AS A FOOD FISH. Much of the blame for the little use made of fish is laid to the housewife. She usually knows little about preparing or cooking fish, and admits it. It is charged, and it appears to be true, that she will choose halibut, salmon or striped bass at 20 cents per pound, and will pass by the shad, rock cod, and other fish at 6 and 8 cents per pound, because the latter are not so easy t
. California fish and game. Fisheries -- California; Game and game-birds -- California; Fishes -- California; Animal Population Groups; Pêches; Gibier; Poissons. 104 CALIFORNIA FISH AND GAME. TRY SHAD AS A FOOD FISH. Much of the blame for the little use made of fish is laid to the housewife. She usually knows little about preparing or cooking fish, and admits it. It is charged, and it appears to be true, that she will choose halibut, salmon or striped bass at 20 cents per pound, and will pass by the shad, rock cod, and other fish at 6 and 8 cents per pound, because the latter are not so easy to prepare and cook. But the man of the house should do his part and learn to be an expert carver so that he may serve fish without its looking like hash. Incidentally, he will probably find from the right side of the fish by starting at the tail with the back of the fish to the right and cutting close to the backbone, leaving the fin and bones along the middle line of back with the under half. Con- tinue the cut on through the head. Next sever the backbone near the tail; insert the knife underneath the severed end and split the backbone away from the fish, taking with it the back fin and bones near it; then split away the remaining portion of the backbone, taking the tail fin with it (see Fig 38o).* With the cut surface of one side upper- most, start at the head and shave away. 37. The preparation of fillet of shad. Splitting the shad. his wife does not have the proper tools to work with, that he never sharpens her knives, and that she does not even have proper sharpening apparatus and has to resort to the stove pipe. For this he should take the blame. Let him pick out a nice shad and then try the different stunts suggested in this issue. If you have not tried shad and do not know much about fish, start out by getting the shad already split at the fish market. If, as it may happen, the fish market man does not know how, show him the directions and figures below, and he will fi
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