This recipe is from the Storz Brewing Company Cookbook, published in 1956.  This is a nice cookbook published by the now defunct Storz Brewing Company.

This recipe has a fun illustration, and the recipe actually looks worth trying.

• 1  4-pound dressed catfish*
• 1/2 cup tomato juice
• 1 teaspoon minced onion
• 1 chopped green pepper
• 1 sliced small onion
• 2 tablespoons salad oil
• 1 no. 2 1/2 can solid-pack tomatoes
• 1/8 teaspoon oregano (optional)
• 1/8 teaspoon pepper
• Few grains garlic salt
• 1 tablespoon cornstarch
• 2 tablespoons water
• 2 cups soft bread crumbs
• 2 tablespoons melted butter or margarine

Heat oven to 400 degrees F.  Rub fish with  some salad oil; sprinkle well with salt, pepper. Place in greased baking dish; add tomato juice; sprinkle with minced onion.  Bake 30 minutes, basting occasionally.  Meanwhile saute pepper and sliced onion in 2 tablespoons salad oil for 2 to 3 minutes. Add next 4 ingredients.  Simmer gently about 1/2 hour. Combine cornstarch and water; stir into sauce.  Cook until thickened, stirring, our over fish.  Sprinkle with crumbs tossed with butter.  Bake 10 minutes more until golden.  Makes 4 or 5 servings.

*A 4 pound dressed bass, bluefish, shad, whitefish, cod, haddock, or other whole fish may be used.

Serve with buttered turnips, tossed green salad, corn sticks, apple pie.