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You have several married couples to dinner in your home. Wrong Way: At the dinner table seat husbands next to wives. Right Way: Arrange your seating plan so that husbands and wives do not sit together.

Author: RETRO HOUSEWIFE, THE CHARLESTON DAILY MAIL SATURDAY EVENING, APRIL 22, 1950 04-20-1950

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RECIPES FROM THE RETRO HOUSEWIFE

MAIN COURSE

FRIED TROUT, American

Ingredients
  • Trout
  • 3 tbsp, scalding water
  • Sweet butter
  • Garnish: strawberry leaves, parsley, etc.
  • Parsley
  • Sage
  • Anchovy
Preparation Instructions

Scrape and clean trout and wash in salt water. Wipe dry. Roll in flour and fry in sweet butter, oleo or salad oil, until brown and crisp. Remove from frying pan and lay on well heated dish. Pour off butter the fish were fried in (not over trout). Now fry parsley and sage in butter until soft and lay on fish. Mash up an anchovy in the scalding hot water and beat some butter into it. Pour over fish and serve. Garnish with leaves of strawberries, parsley, etc. Variation: Perch, pike or salmon may also be served in the same manner.

Contributed by Mrs. F. Wilson, 1950

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