Baked Trout
2 tablespoons chopped fresh parsley
1/2 cup butter
4 trout, cleaned
Sea salt and pepper to taste
1/2 bottle dry white wine
Juice of 1 lemon
Mix the chopped parsley in the butter and divide into five parts. Rub salt and pepper into each trout and place them in a baking dish.
Put one part of butter on each fish, and set aside remaining butter.
Pour in the wine, cover, and cook at 350 degrees for 20 minutes.
Add the juice of one lemon and the rest of the butter cut into small pieces. Cover and cook again for another 10 minutes.
Serves 4
Associated Holidays: Imbolg, Ostara, Beltane (Beltaine), Midsummer
**The fish is a symbol of life, and the Celts believed that eating fish would attract new life to a woman's womb. The Irish hero Tuan, for example, was eaten by the Queen of Ireland while he was in the form of a fish; he was reconceived and later born again.*