Smelts à l'Anglaise (English Style)

Ingredients

• smelts
• very fine breadcrumbs
• clarified butter
• Beurre à la maître-d'hôtel

Instructions

1. Split the smelts along the back and carefully remove the bone without breaking them.
2. Bread them à l'anglaise with very fine breadcrumbs, pressing the crumbs down with the blade of a knife.
3. Cook them in clarified butter.
4. Dish them on a hot long plate and baste them with Beurre à la maître-d'hôtel, half melted.