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SAPIDISSIMA.(shad-roes)(Recipe)

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The roe that may go to the tickling of a single palate for one meal would be capable of development into thousands of lusty fishes that, even without a miracle, might feed the multitude.--Dr. J. Ernest Scott, Bucks County Historical Society, 1908.

Has it ever occurred to you, sir, when you eat one of a pair of fried shad-roes for breakfast, how many shad you consume in embryo? If the roe is from a good-sized fish, certainly not less than twenty-five thousand. O thou piscivorous Leviathan! thou has devoured in germ, at a single meal, and merely as a relish to thy coffee, a hundred thousand pounds of fish.--Thaddeus Norris, known among anglers as Uncle Thad; ...

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