Lake Erie
Beer Battered Perch

Ingredients:

• 4 lbs Lake Erie Perch
• 4 cups pancake mix
• 6 cans beer
• 2 cups flour
• 1 Quart Peanut Oil

• Rinse and pat dry perch.
• Place on paper towel
• mix 1 cup pancake mix with ½ cup of beer, (a little thicker than pancake batter).
• Dredge fish in flour, let sit for 5 minutes or so .This will attach the batter to the fish.
• Dip the fish in the batter and shake off excess.
• Drop in the oil deep fry until golden brown, enjoy and have a beer.

• Make sure your oil is kept at a constant temperature not more than 375 and not less than 340 degrees.
• When you batter fry the fish, always make sure the batter is cold. Cold batter will prevent the fish from absorbing too much oil.