Smelts, Baked
INGREDIENTS.- 12 smelts, bread-crumbs, 1/4 lb. of fresh butter, 2 blades of pounded mace; salt and cayenne to taste. dozen.
SNIPES, TO DRESS.
AVERAGE COST, 18. 6d. to 2s. per Wash, and dry the fish thoroughly in a cloth, and arrange them nicely in a flat baking-dish. Cover them with fine breadcrumbs, and place little pieces of butter all over them. Season, and bake for 15 minutes.
Just before serving, add a squeeze of lemonjuice, and garnish with fried parsley and cut lemon.
SEASONABLE from October to May.
Sufficient for 6 persons.