Fried Perch

Preparation info
  • 4

    servings
    • Difficulty

      Easy

Appears in
The Dooky Chase Cookbook

By Leah Chase

Published 2023

  • About

When we were children, Mother would get up very early on Saturday mornings before her day’s work. She headed for the bayou, with a cane pole in one hand and a can of worms in the other.

I never remembered my mother needing a Valium or any relaxer. With eleven of us you would think she would be driven up the wall half the time ... but never. That fishing pole was her relaxer. She loved to catch those little perch. If she caught a sacalait, which is a nice larger perch with the sweete