Baked Smelts

Ingredients

• smelts
• a layer of fine, fresh bread crumbs
• a little salt
• white pepper
• bits of butter
• the juice of a lemon

Method

1. 1

   Wash and dry the smelts, arrange them in a buttered baking dish, cover with bread crumbs, sprinkle with salt and pepper, place butter on top, and bake until brown (20-30 minutes).

2. 2

   Squeeze lemon juice over them before serving.

As published

This recipe was extracted from The household cook book (1902) by Smiley, James B[ethuel],, page 56. The excerpt below is the record exactly as published.

BAKED SMELTS.— This delicious little fish is of a fine silvery appearance, with a light" fawn=colored shade on the back, and when fresh, has an odor resembling cucumbers. Wash and dry them with a cloth ; arrange them in a buttered flat baking dish ; cover them with a layer of fine, fresh bread crumbs, first sprinkling the fish with a little salt and white pepper; place bits of butter over the bread crumbs and bake until a nice brown, say 20 or 30 minutes. Send to the table in the dish in which they were baked; squeeze the juice of a lemon

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