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Photo by Natalia Gusakova<\/a> on Unsplash<\/a>, Eels <\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n\n\n

Summer is the best time to fish for Eels. Mid May to the end of July. But they can be caught all year around. Jellied Eels have been a staple of East End diets since the 18th Century. They were to be found in many stalls dotted around the East End, from vendors venturing into pubs and in Pie and Mash shops. Tubby Isaacs is perhaps, the most famous. Jellied eels are still sold in a diminishing number of places in the East End. Manze’s<\/a> Eel, Pie, and Mash shop at 204 Deptford High Street, London was listed in December 2023. The shop opened in 1914 and was a pioneer of commercial branding. This is the fourth Manze’s shop to be listed: Tower Bridge Street, Chapel Market Islington, and Walthamstow High street. The current owner of the Deptford shop is retiring and so the shop will close.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

There are three Pie and Mash shops near me in Hackney. The one in Dalston has become a bar. In Broadway Market it is now an optician. But the one in Hoxton Market is surviving, and all three have retained their distinctive interiors. On the River Lee Navigation is another piece of Eel history which is the excellent Fish and Eel Pub at Dobbs Weir.<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n

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Pie and Mash Shop. Established 1862, closed down 2021. Broadway Market, Hackney (photo, copyright the author)<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<\/div>\n\n\n

My mum loved jellied eels. It took me until I was over 60 before I could bring myself to try them. And I have no wish to repeat, what for me, was a revolting experience.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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By JanesDaddy (Ensglish User) – English Wikipedia – [1], CC BY-SA 3.0, https:\/\/commons.wikimedia.org\/w\/index.php?curid=1663124<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n\n\n

Gervase Markham in his \u2018The English Husbandman\u2019 of 1635 provides instructions on how:<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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To take Eels in Winter, Make a long bottle or tube of Hay, wrapped about Willow boughs, and having guts or garbage in the middles. Which being soaked in the deep water by the river side, after two or three days the eels will be in it and you may tread them out with your feet.<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n\n\n\n

And here is a fascinating article on Eel fishing<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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Eel traps at Bray, on the River Thames (Henry Taught 1885)<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n\n\n

Romans, Saxons and Eels<\/strong><\/h2>\n\n\n\n

Eels have been eaten for thousands of years. Apicius, author of a famous collection of Roman Recipes tells us of two sauces for eels:<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Sauce for Eel Ius in anguillam<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n

Eel will be made more palatable by a sauce which has\u200b pepper, celery seed, lovage,\u200b anise, Syrian sumach,\u200b figdate wine,\u200b honey, vinegar, broth, oil, mustard, reduced must.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Another Sauce for Eel Aliter ius in anguillam<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n

Pepper, lovage, Syrian sumach, dry mint, rue berries, hard yolks, mead, vinegar, broth, oil; cook it.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Bede’s Historia Ecclesiastica<\/em>, which tells of Britain as a land with “the greatest plenty of eel and fish.” Several fish traps have been found in and around the Thames, one for example in Chelsea.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Aristotle, Freud and the Deep Sargasso Sea<\/strong><\/h2>\n\n\n\n

But eels had a great mystery no one knew where they came from or how they reproduced. Aristotle thought they spontaneously emerged from the mud. Sigmund Freud dissected hundreds of Eels,<\/a> hoping to find male sex organs. It was only on 19th October 2022 that an article in the science journal Nature disclosed the truth. The article was ‘First direct evidence of adult European eels migrating to their breeding place in the Sargasso Sea<\/strong>‘. Ir proved beyond doubt that the theory that Eels go to the sea near Bermuda to spawn was, incredibly, true.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Eel Pie Island<\/strong><\/h2>\n\n\n\n
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Eel Pie Island . Ordnance Survey In 1871 to 1882 map series (OS<\/a>, 1st series at 1:10560: Surrey (Wikipedia)<\/p>\n\n\n\n

But Eels also have their place in Rock and Roll History. Eel Pie island is on the Thames, near Twickenham and Richmond. It is famous for its Eels. But was home to an iconic music venue. The Eel Pie Hotel hosted most of the great English Bands of the 50s. 60s, and 70s. The roll call of bands here <\/a>is awesome. The Stones, Cream, Rod Stewart, Pink Floyd, you name it, they were here:<\/p>\n\n\n\n

David Bowie, Jeff Beck, Howlin\u2019 Wolf, John Lee Hooker, Memphis Slim, Champion Jack Dupree. Buddy Guy, Geno Washington, Long John Baldry, Julie Driscoll and Brian Auger. John Mayall\u2019s Bluesbreakers, Ten Years After, Chicken Shack, and one of my all-time favourite bands. the Savoy Brown Blues Band. And I have forgotten the Nice, the Crazy World of Arthur Brown, Joe Cocker, and the Who. And many more!<\/p>\n\n\n\n

The Rolling Stones played at the Railway Tavern<\/a>, Richmond on Sunday, February 24, 1963. Here they were spotted by people from the nearby Eel Pie Hotel. They were booked for a 6 month residency, which they began as virtually unknown and ended as famous.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Here is a recipe for Baked Eel pie<\/a> from Richmond, near the famous Eel Pie Island.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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This was first published as part of another post in 2022, and revised and republished on 28th November 2023, 2024.Moved from November 28th to July 23rd in 2025<\/p>\n\n\n\n

(I moved it to make room for a post on Mrs Shakespeare. Also, because I cannot find anything to substantiate the opening statement that the Eel Season had its second day on November 28th. All evidence I find says the best fishing is in the Summer.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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