Thread: Pickled Crappie maybe

Here's a recipe I came across.

Do you all think it will work with crappie???????????

1 pound fresh filleted fish, skin on & skin off
1 cup salt
3 tablespoons water
1 teaspoon allspice
3/4 cup sugar
3 large onions, thinly sliced
3 cups white vinegar
3 bay leaves
dash black pepper

Put some salt in bottom of small bowl. Place fish skin down. Continue layering
fish and salt finishing with a layer of salt. Put weight (dish or plate) on top
and refrigerate for 4 or 5 days. Wash fish well and skin. Soak in cold water
1 hour, changing water 3 or 4 times. Cut in 1-inch pieces. Drain and pat dry.
Boil 3 tablespoons water with 1 teaspoon allspice. Add sugar, vinegar, bay
leaves and pepper. Mix until sugar is dissolved. In a 1 quart jar put 2 cups
picking solution, some onions and fish pieces, layering them and topping with
onions. Fill to the top with solution. Keep in tightly closed jar in refrigerator
2 or 3 days until ready to serve.

http://www.crappie.com/crappie/virgi...f-boy-r-d.html

Pickled crappie

Most people opt for skin off, it is a little chewy and the texture turns some off.

Your recipe strikes me as being on-track. That will absolutely work on crappie. I recently had a fellow VA Forum member here and he went gaga over em. I am still eating on the ones pictured in the 2008 post and they are as firm and good as the day they were made. They keep a long time under refridgeration. I'm from MN and we used to pickle northern pike, almost all anglers did, still a very common practice. I have picled crappie, pike, tilapia, catfish, bream,
and some saltwater fish over the years and never been disappointed. Give it a go and if you have a question feel free to PM me.
Good luck!

"Boil 3 tablespoons" How do you boil 3 tablespoons of water?

Originally Posted by HTGGUY

"Boil 3 tablespoons" How do you boil 3 tablespoons of water?

... as it sounds

Boil 1 cup of water, and dip out the 3 tablespoons of water - add Allspice.

OR (if it's required that the Allspice be boiled along with the water)

put the Allspice & 3 tbls of water in a microwave proof container, and "nuke it" until it starts to bubble up.

... cp

No Thanks, I'll eat mine cooked. Freshwater fish carry too many parasites .

reason not to eat uncooked fish!

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