This section is from the book "Indian Cookery And Confectionery", by I. R. Dey. Also available from Amazon: Indian Cookery And Confectionery.
Boil pieces of a big fish with pasted ginger, onions, turmeric and salt. Take out the boiled pieces and remove the bones. Add raisins, pieces of almonds, powdered turmeric, chillies, ginger-juice, salt, minced onions and a little paste of moistened grams, and beat thoroughly. Heat it with a little ghee to evaporate some water so that small balls may be made of the paste. Dip the balls into eggs beaten with salt and powdered turmeric, roll on bread crumbs and fry in plenty of ghee.
Flake and skin a big sized chitol fish. Cut in pieces and boil some of them with turmeric and salt. Drain off the water. Remove the bones and mix powdered turmeric, pepper, cumin, ginger-juice, salt and a little flour. Form balls and fry them till deep brown in ghee. It is a simple yet delicious preparation.
Remove the scales, etc. from 1 powa of shrimps and make a paste of them. Add 1 chhatak of powdered biscuit, 1/2 tola of powdered pepper, a pinch of powdered mace, 1/2 tola of salt, a little pasted green chillies and 1/2 chhatak of ghee. Mix thoroughly and prepare small balls of it. Dip them into eggs beaten with salt, roll on powdered biscuit and fry in plenty of ghee.
 
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