On 1/27/2013 10:19 AM, Janet Bostwick wrote:
> On Sun, 27 Jan 2013 14:51:43 -0000, "Ophelia"
> > wrote:
>
>> My family were great bakers and made wonderful bread, cakes, scones and
>> pastries every week.
>>
>> A couple of my favourites which I still sometimes make today:
>> snip
>> What were your favourites? Not necessarily sweet thing btw!
>>
> I loved fried smelt. Great Lakes smelt are smaller than ocean smelt.
> My BIL would catch them by the bushel-basket full in Lake Michigan. I
> can't remember the time of year or what else we had with them. I
> think we had sour cream cucumbers, but what I remember is this truly
> heaping platter of fried smelt. (Heaped high enough that some would
> always slide off) They were all golden and crusty. Mom fried them in
> her big 'spider.' (I don't know why, but spider is/was a common term
> for the big, black, cast iron skillet.)
(snipped)
> Janet US
>
If it had "legs" it was a spider

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