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Show The ftmrV It is the opinion of the true gourmet that of all marine panfish there is none to compare with the smelt (Osmerus mordax). This primary rank is its own by reason of its delicacy and delicious flavor, and when fried a light brown in very fine bread crumbs and served with melted butter there is none that disputes dis-putes its pre-eminence. Its delightful flavor, however, as well as its peculiar odoi is evanescent. Like the mackerel, it cannot be too fresh. It is from its odor that the smelt derives de-rives not only its familiar but Latin name, an odor 60 aggressive of sliced cucumbers that, if its presence be manifest mani-fest only to t he sense of smell, people nre often deluded into Buch supposition. This odor is not. marked except in tha freshly caught fish and disappears in the cooking, giving place, however, to a fitting resurrection of the smelt to an olfactory sense still more 6avory and de lightful. Market Review, 1 I - ! ...IIII1IIIIHIMII1II I...... .11.11 .,-,..11. ..III.,.! |