Heart to Hearth Cookery

Buck and Hen

The water temperatures of the rivers are warming and the shad are beginning to run up the Delaware and Scuylkill Rivers to spawn.  I am holding a buck (male) shad  with his silvery scales intact.  The larger hen shad (full of roe) has been scaled and is on my board as I prepare to harvest the roe.  This is the time of year that I provide shad demonstrations to educate the public about this important anadromous fish to the Lenape.