Baked Stuffed Lake Trout, Salmon, Or Walleyed Pike

Ingredients

1 ts salt
1 slice carrot
1 pepper
1 slice rib celery
6 fish
3/4 ts marjoram
1 stuffing recipe
1 bay leaf
1 1/2 c wine
1 slice lemon
14 tb butter
2 slices shallots
4 ribs
1/2 c bread crumbs
1/2 onions
1/4 savory
1/4 c celery tops
2 tb parsley
1/2 ts fennel seed
2 tb tarragon
1 1/2 roughly torn

Instructions

Bread crumbs Marjoram goes well with fish, and here's a recipe that uses it both in and on the fish. Neither lake trout nor salmon need be scaled, but do scale the pike. A whole baked fish on a garnished platter always looks good to guests. Salt and pepper the fish inside and out, then stuff it and sew up or skewer the opening. Place in a buttered pan and lay lemon slices along its length. Stick a toothpick in each slice. Add the vegetables, marjoram, bay leaf, and white wine and bake, uncovered, for about 35 minutes in a 400 degree oven, basting first with the melted butter and then with the liquid in the pan. CELERY STUFFING Saute the chopped celery and onions in butter in a small skillet for 15 minutes, until tender but still with a little bite. Add the chopped celery tops and the bread crumbs. Season to taste with salt, pepper, and savory. Makes 1 cup. FENNEL SEED AND TARRAGON STUFFING Mix all ingredients together and stuff fish.