Hey H-n-F. You won't be wasting your time. Here's the recipe.
1 tablespoon paprika
1 tablespoon salt
1 teaspoon onion powder
1 1/2 teaspoons garlic powder
1 teaspoon cayenne pepper
1/2 teaspoon white pepper
1/2 teaspoon black pepper
1/2 teaspoon thyme
1/2 teaspoon oregano
1 tablespoon fresh parsley chopped very fine.
Mix above ingredients in bowl. Dip crappie fillets into melted sweat cream butter, then coat fillet with mixture. Drop into a very hot cast iron skillet in which you have melted about a tablespoon of sweat cream butter. Just be sure to do this outside your house. If not....someone is going to call the fire department on you!!! LOL
This recipe takes a while to put together but it is much better than anything you can buy off the shelf.