Recipe - Crispy Fried Maine Sardines

4 cn (4 ounce each) Maine Sardines
in tomato sauce
8 ounce Tomato sauce
1 cup Dry bread crumbs
1/3 cup Parmesan cheese; grated
One half cup Flour
Cocktail sauce

Drain sardines and reserve the sauce. Combine tomato sauce and sardine
sauce. Combine crumbs and cheese. Roll sardines in flour, dip in tomato
sauce, and roll in crumb mixture. Place in a single layer in a fry basket.
Fry in deep fat, 350 F, for about a minute or until brown. Drain on
absorbent paper and serve with cocktail sauce and cut or sliced up lemon.

From "Flavor of Maine Sardine Secrets", US Dept. of the Interior, 1968
MM by Dave Sacerdote
Posted to MMRecipes Digest V3 #292

Date: Thu, 24 Oct 1996 11:51:49 PST

From: l.ande.smith@juno.com (Lois Smith)