The Epicure's Almanac or Diary of Good Living
November 6th : SMELTS IN JELLY
А very tasteful supper dish may be thus prepared:
Select half a dozen fine smelts, rub their interiors well with salt and powdered mace; put them into a flat earthen pot, with a layer of butter above and below them, and set them in a slow oven for forty minutes; take them carefully out, and let them drain on a slanting board, or white tile, till quite cold.
Choose a mould sufficiently large to hold them, pour in savoury jelly, nearly cold, and place the fish horizontally, with their backs downwards, in the mould; as soon as it is completely filled, set it in a cold place; when required, turn it out on a dish, and garnish it with pickled bar berries.
It is at once elegant in appearance and piquant in flavour.