Great Grandad’s Recipe

Name: Great Grandad’s Recipe
Prep time: 5 min
Cook time: 5 min
Total time: 10 min
Ingredients: ½ kilogram whitebait.; ½ cup milk.; Salt and pepper.

SpotX Wild Foods Recipe from West Coast Whitebaiters Association
Prep:5 minutes Cook:5 minutes Difficulty:1

Ingrediants:

½ kilogram whitebait.
½ cup milk.
Salt and pepper.

Directions:

Heat milk in a pot and add whitebait.
Simmer until the whitebait just turn white.
Drain whitebait and eat them on buttered, hot toast.

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Whitebait
One of New Zealand’s true delicacies, whitebait’s subtle taste is hard to put into words, but the price it demands in the shops, topping $100 a kilo at times, is testimony to its popularity among gourmets.
There are some seven species of native fish whose larval phases are loosely called whitebait. During late winter and early spring, the dates determined by geographical location, whitebaiters head for the rivers, streams and coastal river mouths armed with a variety of nets to trap ‘bait.