Smelts

"It ain't nothin 'at all but Mis' Smelts 'garbage," Mrs. Snawdor declared vehemently.

Calvary Alley Alice Caldwell Hegan Rice 1906

_*Broiled Smelts_ -- Select 12 large smelts, clean well and split.

The Story of Crisco Marion Harris Neil

When you serve it, you may lay round the dish divers Small Fishes, as Tench, Pearch, Gurnet, Chevin, Roach, Smelts, and run them over with jelly.

The accomplisht cook or, The art & mystery of cookery Robert May

Smelts are best fished for with tiny hooks tied on fine gut and baited with fragments of shrimp, ragworm, and other delicacies.

Encyclopaedia Britannica, 11th Edition, Volume 2, Part 1, Slice 1 Various

_*Planked Smelts_ -- Crisco a plank quite generously, and place upon it smelts that have been split, cleaned, and seasoned, and squeeze liberal amount of lemon juice over them.

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_*Fried Smelts_ -- Clean, trim the fins, and remove gills; wipe very dry, roll in flour, brush over with beaten egg, roll in crumbs and fry in hot Crisco until crisp; drain on soft paper, dish on lace paper in a heap, and garnish with fried parsley, serve with sauce tartare.

The Story of Crisco Marion Harris Neil

"Tobias Smelts, come forth!" called Jack in deep tones.

Jack Ranger's Western Trip Or, from Boarding School to Ranch and Range Clarence Young

_Smelts_ should be stiff and silvery, with a delicate perfume faintly suggestive of cucumber.

The Story of Crisco Marion Harris Neil

There were also a host of small Fishes, comparing with those above mentioned as our Perch, Herring, Smelts, etc., compare with our larger Fishes; but, whatever their size or form, all the Fishes of those days had the same hard scales fitting to each other by hooks, instead of the thin membranous scales overlapping each other at the edge, like the common Fishes of more modern times.

The Atlantic Monthly, Volume 12, No. 70, August, 1863 Various

Smelts make a nice garnish for many fish dishes, the tails drawn through the eyes, dressed as above, and fried.

The Story of Crisco Marion Harris Neil