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Community => Butchering, Cooking, Recipes => Topic started by: pens fan on February 13, 2015, 05:57:33 PM

Title: Pickling Recipes for Smelt?
Post by: pens fan on February 13, 2015, 05:57:33 PM: Anyone? I've tried trout and failed miserably. :dunno:
Title: Re: Pickling Recipes for Smelt?
Post by: ICEMAN on February 14, 2015, 08:35:28 AM: A few years back I also looked for a similar recipe. No luck then....
Title: Re: Pickling Recipes for Smelt?
Post by: Boss .300 winmag on February 14, 2015, 08:45:33 AM: Here's a recipe, first one off google search.

http://www.in-fisherman.com/recipes/pickled-fish-recipe/ (http://www.in-fisherman.com/recipes/pickled-fish-recipe/)

Or all these recipes for smelt.

http://www.seagrant.umn.edu/fisheries/smelt_recipes (http://www.seagrant.umn.edu/fisheries/smelt_recipes)
Title: Re: Pickling Recipes for Smelt?
Post by: pens fan on February 14, 2015, 01:35:45 PM: Ah! There is a pickling recipe in there. Thanks!
Title: Re: Pickling Recipes for Smelt?
Post by: Sitka_Blacktail on February 17, 2015, 01:22:27 AM: Never heard of cooking fish to pickle them. once cooked, the meat will crumble. Never cooked the vinegar either. Always have used a cold pack. Brining the fish in the salt kills bacteria and firms the meat. Then the vinegar finishes the job. Other than that, this recipe is the basic one I use for salmon or smelt. With salmon I get fancy sometimes and also slice up limes and oranges to add to the mix.

Then I have another recipe for salmon that I use brown sugar instead of white and burgundy wine instead of white wine. and I leave the oranges and limes out of that mix.
Title: Re: Pickling Recipes for Smelt?
Post by: AWS on February 22, 2015, 11:17:02 PM: My grand aunt would fry them and then pickle them, I wish I would have gotten the recipe before she pastas they were a real treat.