Instructions: Soak the bread in water and squeeze dry. Mix all the ingredients except the oil and form into patties. Place the patties in a baking pan with hot oil and bake in a 400 degree oven until the fish is nicely browned (about 45 minutes), turning once. Serve hot or cold. This dish is often served for the second or third Sabbath meal.

[[Spike is surprised to see that carp is listed in this recipe. There was a Filipino
man living next door for awhile. He had a concrete container in his yard, that was like a pond, only square. It was about 2 ft. x 2 ft. by 2 ft. in size, and it had a drain in the bottom. I asked him what it was for and he explained that he would
fish in the nearby river (Willamette in Oregon) and catch carp. He would put the
carp in there, fill it with fresh water. Every day he would feed corn meal to the carp, clean and drain the pond, and fill it with fresh water. He would do that for 3 weeks. By that time, he said, all the impurities were purged from the fish and it could then be decapitated, cooked, and eaten. The reason for the pond size was so that the fish could not do a lot of swimming and thereby lose weight.]]

[[Carp has another useful purpose. My mother, an avid gardener, would always have a line in the water (we lived on a lake). If she caught a carp, she would
dispatch it with a pitchfork and bury it in her garden to enrich the soil.

Sometimes
she didnt bury it deep enough, and our dog, a rather uppity Brussels Griffaun,
would dig it up and roll in it. She must not have been very smart, because that behavior led invariably to the hated DOG-BATH.]]

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