Baked Pike with Dill Sauce
Makes 4 to 6 servings

Ingredients

• 3 to 4 pounds pike, dressed
• 1 - Tablespoon salt
• 1 - egg, lightly beaten with 1-Tablespoon water
• Bread crumbs
• 4 - thin bacon strips (5-inches long)
• 2 - cups light cream or half & half
• 2 - Tablespoons butter
• 2 - cups peal onions, cooked 10 minutes in salt water
• 1 - teaspoon sugar
• Dill Sauce

Directions

1. Wash the fish, rub the inside with salt and brush the outside with egg mixture.
2. roll in crumbs, and place on its side a baking dish.
3. Cut 4 shallow slashes across the fish.
4. Lay bacon in the slashes.
5. Baked for 40 minutes.  
6. Baste with cream several times until fish begins to brown.
7. In a skillet, add butter and melt.
8. Add the onions and sugar and sauté until golden.
9. Serve the fish on a heated platter, garnish with the onions.
10. Serve the Dill Sauce separately.