Baked Smelts With Oyster Force-meat Recipe

Instructions

1. Clean, wash, and wipe dry, then fill with a force-meat made of 1 part fine crumbs, 3 parts finely minced oysters, a tablespoon of melted butter to each cup of the force-meat, seasoned with salt, paprika, and a little minced parsley.
2. Sew the fish up with long stitches; lay on the grating of your covered roaster, having a little boiling water under the grating.
3. Bake twenty minutes, basting once with butter when nearly done.
4. Serve with lemon sauce.
5. The threads should be cut carefully and drawn out before serving.