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conger
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Definition:a genus of eels some of which grow up to 3 meters in length. They are eaten by many cultures, but it goes both ways - they sometimes attack human swimmers and divers.---European congers have an average adult length of 1.5 m (4 ft 11 in), a maximum known length of 3 m (9 ft 10 in), and maximum weight of roughly 110 kg (240 lb), making them the largest eels in the world by weight. They can be rivaled or marginally exceeded in length by the largest species of moray eel but these tend to be more slender and thus weigh less than the larger congers.text from Wikipedia, licensed under Creative Commons - Attribution - Sharealike
image: By Gervais et Boulart - Les poissons Gervais, H., Public Domain, https://commons.wikimedia.org/w/index.php?curid=19157032
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Uses:
To fry Conger.
Being scalded, and the fins shaved off, splat it, cut it into rouls round the conger, flour it, and fry it in clarified butter crisp, sauce it with butter beaten with vinegar, juyce of orange or lemon, and serve it with fryed parsley, fryed ellicksanders, or clary in butter.
Robert May. The accomplisht cook (1685)
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the Drawling-master was an old conger-eel, that used to come once a week: he taught us Drawling, Stretching, and Fainting in Coils."
Lewis Carroll. Alice in Wonderland (1865)
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'I am sure,' said Uriah, writhing himself into the silence like a Conger-eel, 'that this is a subject full of unpleasantness to everybody.
Charles Dickens. David Copperfield (1850)
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I recognized the Javanese, a real serpent two and a half feet long, of a livid colour underneath, and which might easily be mistaken for a conger eel if it were not for the golden stripes on its side.
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the tangled beams and girders under-water become a home for conger eels and octopus.
Mark Haddon. The Pier Falls and Other Stories (2016)
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Of alle maner salt fische, looke ye pare awey the felle,
Salt samoun / Congur, grone fische / boþe lynge & myllewelle,
& oñ youre soueraynes trencheur ley hit, as y yow telle.
þe sawce þer-to, good mustard, alway accordethe welle.
John Russell. The Boke of Nurture (1460)
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