Baked Stuffed Lake Trout, Salmon, or Walleyed Pike

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Title: Baked Stuffed Lake Trout, Salmon, or Walleyed Pike
Categories: Fish/sea
Yield: 6 servings

1 ts Salt 1 Stuffing recipe
1 Carrot, thinly sliced 1 Bay leaf
White pepper 1 1/2 c White wine
1 Rib celery, thinly sliced 1 Lemon, sliced very thin
6 lb Fish, dressed 4 tb Butter, melted
3/4 ts Dried marjoram 2 Shallots, thinly sliced

------------------------------CELERY STUFFING------------------------------
3/4 c (4 ribs) 1/2 Chopped onions
1/2 c Bread crumbs 1/4 ts Savory
Chopped celery 4 tb Butter
Salt and fresh black pepper 1/4 c Chopped celery tops

-------------------------FENNEL / TARRAGON STUFFING-------------------------
2 tb Chopped parsley 6 tb Butter, melted
1/2 ts Fennel seed 1 1/2 c Roughly torn fresh
2 tb Chopped fresh tarragon Bread crumbs
Salt and fresh pepper

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.

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