Fried Smelt
From The Cook County cook book, 1912
Serves 2
Recipe by Mrs. D. E. Gentry, Glencoe, IL.
Presented as published in 1912. Historical recipes may not meet modern food-safety standards. Cook from the modern interpretation below, not the original instructions.
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Ingredients
Method
As published
This recipe was extracted from The Cook County cook book (1912) by Associated College Women Workers, page 172. The excerpt below is the record exactly as published.
FRIED SMELT.— Wash, dress and dry with a cloth. Melt a teaspoon of butter and pour into it 2 well-beaten eggs, salt and flour the smelt, dip in egg, roll them in cracker crumbs, fry in hot lard and butter
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