Camp cooks fried trout in deep butter and cornmeal, a dish epicures would envy.

Evidence

The men, however, came back perfectly loaded with trout, and we had a feast. Epicures at home would have envied us. Mr. Kavan kept the frying pan with boiling butter on the stove, butter enough thoroughly to cover the trout, rolled them in coarse corn meal, plunged them into the butter, turned them once, and took them out, thoroughly done, fizzing, and lemon colored. — Isabella L. Bird, A Lady’s Life in the Rocky Mountains, 244

Categorization

• CANDY: Deep-butter-fried cornmeal trout in a Rocky Mountain cabin, fizzing and lemon-colored — an easy, fond dinner-party fact.