To Bake Smelts

Ingredients

• 12 smelts
• bread crumbs
• 1/4 lb fresh butter
• 2 blade pounded mace
• salt and cayenne to taste

Instructions

1. Wash, and dry the fish thoroughly in a cloth, and arrange them nicely in a flat baking-dish.
2. Cover them with fine bread crumbs, and place little pieces of butter all over them.
3. Season and bake for 15 minutes.
4. Just before serving, add a squeeze of lemon-juice, and garnish with fried parsley and cut lemon.