| Title | Cooking Fish |
| Caption | The term fish sodden can refer to any fish soaked in liquid. The Croatan may have marinated their fish before cooking in an effort to flavor the meal or to prevent flareups caused by cooking over an open flame. |
| Source | Virtual Jamestown Engravings Exhibit |
| Date | 1585 |
| URL | http://www.virtualjamestown.org/images/white_debry_html/white44.html |
| Creator | John White |
| Type | Watercolor |
| Origin | Internet |
"Sodden" is literally defined by the OED as “cooked or prepared by boiling,” which is how Hariot is using the word, it would soon (earliest OED example – 1599) pick up the connotations of “rendered dull, stupid, or expressionless; pale or flaccid.”