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Fried Brook Trout

From an old cookbook · modernised transcription
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Fried Brook Trout

Ingredients

Directions

  1. Cut thin slices of salt pork and place them in a frying pan until the fat is rendered.

  2. Rub the trout thoroughly with coarse sea salt and let them stand for a few minutes.

  3. Dry the trout and roll each one in cracker dust.

  4. Heat the rendered fat until smoking hot and add the trout.

  5. Turn the trout constantly to prevent burning until thoroughly cooked.

Recipe from a historical cookbook (Internet Archive).

Transcribed from a scanned cookbook and modernised for today's kitchens. Where the book gave no heat or time, or said "a moderate oven", the temperatures and times here may be modern equivalents rather than the book's own figures.

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