The Saturday Sip: September 28, 2024
Here's your etiquette tip, quote and an Emily Post Cookbook recipe to start your weekend off right!
The Tip
When serving cold dishes like chicken salads, ceviche, or chilled desserts, chill your plates before plating and serving them to your guests. (This tip is courtesy of one of our newest trainers, Chef Angela Wilson.)
The Recipe
Simple and delicious go so well together and are both present here in Emily’s Brook Trout Sauté in Butter.
Emily Post’s Cookbook, 1951, pg. 56 *Please note that recipes are copied as exactly as possible, including grammatical errors and inconsistencies.
Brook Trout Sauté in Butter
Time: 30 minutes
Serves: 2
Ingredients
2 brook grout, each 1/2 lb. or a little more
flour
salt
1/4 lb. butter
1 lemon
1 tbs. chopped parsley
Directions
Clean trout, removing the heads if you prefer, but those who know them will miss eating the muscle that is in each cheek. Dredge with flour and put trout into skillet in which you have heated but not browned ¾ of the butter. Add salt and the juice of ¼ of the lemon.
Cook slowly for 20 minutes, turning the trout over carefully after 10 minutes.
Just before serving, melt remaining butter. Serve trout sprinkled with the parsley and with the butter poured over them. Decorate with slices of peeled lemon.
The Quote
“Jealously is the suspicion of one’s own inferiority.” - Emily Post
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