Clean and bone a two-pound trout. Put in a buttered baking-pan, skin side down. Dot with butter, season with cayenne, sprinkle with chopped anchovies, cover with half a pound of grated American cheese, and pour over one cupful of sour cream. Bake for half an hour, basting as required.
TROUT AU BEURRE NOIR
Clean and score the fish, dip in seasoned flour, sauté in hot butter, and take up. Brown half a cupful of butter, take from the fire, add the juice of a lemon and a teaspoonful of minced parsley, pour over the fish, and serve.
TROUT WITH SHRIMP SAUCE
Put the cleaned trout on the grate in a fish kettle, adding salted water to cover. Add also a sliced carrot, a sprig of thyme, two bay-leaves and half a wineglassful of white wine. Simmer until done, drain, and serve with Shrimp Sauce.
TENDERLOIN OF TROUT WITH WINE SAUCE
Cut a large sea-trout in pieces and simmer until done in salted and acidulated boiling water to which a large sliced onion has been added. Drain and keep warm. Cook together two tablespoonfuls each of butter and flour and add enough of the liquid drained from the fish to make a thick sauce. Cook until thick, stirring constantly, take from the fire, add one cupful of Madeira wine and three eggs well-beaten. Put the fish in a buttered baking-pan, sprinkle with seasoned crumbs, cover with mushrooms, then with oysters and shrimps. Pour the sauce over and bake until the oysters are done. Serve in the dish in which it was baked.
STEAMED TROUT
Lay the prepared fish in a steamer and place over boiling water, steam until done and serve with plenty of melted butter or Egg Sauce.