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Show The Smr, "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, H cannot be too fresh. It is from its odor that the smelt derives de-rives not only its familiar but Latin name, an odor so aggressive of sliced cucumbers that, if its presence be manifest mani-fest only to the sense of smell, people nro often deluded into such supposition. This odor is not marked except in the freshly oaught fish and disappear in the cooking, giving place, however, to a fitting resurrection of the smelt to an olfactory sense still more savory and delightful. de-lightful. Market Review. |