Clean the smelts by drawing them between the finger and thumb, beginning at the tail.
When smelts are used as a garnish, serve one on each plate with the other fish.
Smelts are also seasoned well with salt and pepper, dipped in butter and afterwards in flour, and placed in a very hot oven for eight or ten minutes to get a handsome brown.
The Quilliute Indians of Washington believe that "the first surf-smelts that appear must not be sold or given away to be taken to another place, nor must they be cut transversely, but split open with a mussel-shell.
There is an old saying, "That the first flood in May, Takes all the Smelts away.
Smelts should be very fresh, and not washed more than is necessary to clean them.
Here it lies buried till the spring, when, about the latter end of March, it begins to exclude the young, which gradually increase to four or five inches in length, and are then termed smelts or smouts.
Dry the smelts well, and fix their tails in their mouths.
Put a little water-cress on the plate with the smelts as well as the sauce.
Smelts or small pan fish may be substituted for it, if it is not in one's market.
They catch smelts by thousands, so that our town's people, who can eat them not two hours out of the water, are spoiled for the smelts which are called fresh in cities.
The smelts run up, when winter is still at its height.
A whole school of smelts and tom-cods, taking advantage of this, had come up with the tide, and the mouth of the brook was full of them.
In addition to their clams, the boys had an abundance of lobsters and wrinkles; they had also brought some of the smelts caught in the mouth of the brook the day before.
The smeltsgoing in to eat the bait, he gradually drew it up, and, when almost at the surface, gave a quick jerk; but the water was so long filtering through the handkerchief that they all swam out.
Dress the smelts on a folded napkin, and serve with Mayonnaise or with Tartare sauce.
Then roll the smelts first in milk and then in flour, and shake off any lumps.
Fried Smelts Put a deep kettle on the fire, with two cups of lard in it, to get it very hot.
Put four smelts in the wire basket, and stand it in the fat, so that the fish are entirely covered, for only half a minute, or till you can count thirty.
Then he thought about the long-legged herons he had seen fishing in the water; then about their own fishing, and what capital fish the smelts were.
After which, as an experiment, it was decided to roast the smelts before the blaze, a task they achieved with more or less success.
She carefully followed directions, but the egg had been borrowed from Mrs. Smelts who had borrowed it some days before from Mrs. Lavinski, and the result was not what Mrs. Purdy predicted.
Mis' Smelts is just the same, an' if Levinski's is cleaner, it smells a heap worse.
Whatever fear Nance had of Birdie's resenting the part she had played in landing Mr. Smelts in the city hospital was promptly banished.
Mis' Smelts is awful bad," Mrs. Snawdor reported, looking more serious than she had heretofore.
Mr. Smelts was lifted in, none too gently, and as he showed no signs of returning consciousness, Cock-eye paused irresolute and looked at Dan.
Old man Smelts an' Mr. Gorman'd have what they took in hock before mornin'.
Had Jim Smelts been twice the size he was, she would have sprung at him just the same and rained blow after stinging blow upon his befuddled head with her slender fairy wand.
His marriage to Birdie Smelts had been the fiery furnace in which his soul had been softened to receive the final stamp of manhood.
And Mrs. Smelts sat down in a puddle of soap-suds and gave herself up to the luxury of tears.
She knew from the angry voices on the first floor that Mr. Smeltshad come home "as usual"; she knew who was having sauerkraut for supper, and whose bread was burning.
Ordinarily the bright evening wraps, the glimpses of sparkling jewels, the gay confusion of the scene would have excited her liveliest interest, but to-night she was too busy hating Birdie Smelts to think of anything else.
Smelts are considered a delicate and nutritious fish for invalids.
The frying-pan must be more than two-thirds full of boiling lard; boiling hard when the smelts are put in, so as to float them on the surface.
The next morning such smelts as had been left uncooked for the previous breakfast, came to the table a truly tempting sight, but with the first mouthful a distinct murmur arose and Mrs. Bonnell exclaimed: "Mercy upon me!
One morning girl after girl left her fried smelts untasted though ordinarily they were a rare delicacy in that part of the world.
Serve it up with the fried smelts round the dish, and a few over the stew.
PUT into a plain tin or copper mould warm savory jelly about an inch and an half deep; then take fresh smelts turned round, boil them gently in strong salt and water till done, and lay them on a drainer.
When the savory jelly in the mould is quite cold, put the smelts upon it with the best side downwards; then put a little more jelly just lukewarm over the fish, and when that is cold fill the mould with more of the same kind.
With; dressed in a certain style; as, smelts à la tartare, which means smelts with tartare sauce.
If with smelts, no water must be suffered to hang about the fish, or the beauty and flavour of the smelts will be lost.
Dip thesmelts into a plate of fine Indian meal, and fry them brown.
In August the delicate smelts suddenly reappeared at Putney, where they had not been seen in any number for many years.
Later, in September, another migration of smelts passed right up the river.
Smelts are allowed to be caught in the Thames, on the first of November, and continue till May.
If you like to send it to table in full dress, surround it with nicely-fried smelts (No.
Send it up on a fish-drainer, garnished with slices of lemon and sprigs of curled parsley, or nicely-fried smelts (No.
From their fishing they obtained some smelts and herrings; from their digging some very good roots, called chiqueli, which are very abundant in certain places.
After his prayer, he went to the river and found all the smelts he wanted.
Slips, soles, flounders, whitings, and smelts are the lightest of any fish, and upon that account more to be recommended to invalids in a state of convalescence.
The above list will hopefully give you a few useful examples demonstrating the appropriate usage of "smelts" in a variety of sentences. We hope that you will now be able to make sentences using this word.
