Baked Trout

Ingredients

• a seven-pound Lake Superior trout
• rub well with salt
• pepper
• four or five slices bread
• two eggs
• tablespoon butter
• one quart boiling water

Method

1. 1

   Scale and clean the trout, stuff with a dressing made from bread crusts, and sew securely.

2. 2

   Spread with egg, sprinkle with cracker crumbs, and bake in a hot oven with boiling water.

3. 3

   Baste every ten minutes until done.

Nutrition per serving

Estimated from matched ingredients across 10 servings.

As published

This recipe was extracted from The new practical housekeeping (1890) by Estelle Woods Wilcox, page 215. The excerpt below is the record exactly as published.

Baked Trout — Scale and scrape clean a seven-pound Lake Superior trout, but do not cut off head or tail ; wash inside quickly witn cold water and rub well with salt and pepper if wished; then score the top (back) offish hj making gashes two and a half inches long, an incn deep and three inches apart ; now stuff' with a rather dry dressing made by cutting off" crusts from four or five slices bread. 256 FISH. ^^—^— put in pan, pour over a very little boiling water, cover tightly with a cloth, and when soft add tablespoon butter, pepper, salt, an egg and the bread from which the crusts were cut. Mix well and add a little seasoning of sape, marjoram, or any mixed seasoning, using only, a very small pmch ; sew up and tie securely in a circle by placing a string around the back of head urider the gills and then around the first score above the tail, and putting the tail in the mouth ; cutting a few small gashes in the side offish next to the in- side of circle facilitates the shaping. Beat two eggs and spread over fish, having first placed it on a large tin or earthen plate, putting egg batter' well inside the gashes, sprinkle with finely rolled cracker crumbs and put a little butter in each gash and more on top, unless a very fat fish. Place in dripping pan on the plate or tnvet in a moderately hot oven and add one quart boiling water

Cook this with the app: pantry check, scaling, and the assistant.