Fish and eel were plentiful in the Delaware River. The Van Tuyl, Middaugh, Hooker families and others kept a barrel of salted eels for winter meals. Each child’s dinner would be a boiled eel and four buckwheat pancakes. Other families in the area spread rye bread with butter or grease from pork for their dinner.
—from Johnston, Reminiscences
I was quite interested to know that 180 years or so later, eels are still trapped in eel weirs near Pond Eddy, on the Delaware.
I well remember the eel racks in the Delaware River when we lived in Barryville Parsonage while I was growing up.
We had Eels to eat. My mother cut them in about 1-1/2 to 2″ pieces and fried them. They tasted good as I remember them.