To Keep Trout
Dear Aunt Daisy, Could you please find out for me how to smoke trout at home? I do a bit of trout fishing and often get more than we can eat while they are fresh, so I thought it would be good if I knew how to smoke them. Could you please tell me?"French Pass Road" (Cambridge).
A very sensible question and very seasonal one. I think it will be difficult for you to smoke trout at home, but I will give you here a recipe for preserving trout which is very good indeed. For the smoking it would be better to send them to any nearby fishmonger, who will charge you very little and do the job properly. At the same time, however, families camping on the beach during the summer-time do sometimes improvise a little " smoke house" for the surplus fish which they catch; just a big packing case with rods fastened inside tairly high up, from which to dangle the fish, which have been split open and cleaned, but not salted, I understand.
Then a fire is made on the ground, of ti-trée or some fragrant wood, the only hole for draught being a small opening out near the bottom of one side, through which you put your hand to put on more sticks if necessary. I hope that some campers who read this will be so kind as to send in a better description of how they successfully smoke fish.
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New Zealand Listener, Volume 3, Issue 69, 18 October 1940, Page 38
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247To Keep Trout New Zealand Listener, Volume 3, Issue 69, 18 October 1940, Page 38
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