Name: Preparation of Cod Liver Oil
Ingredients: 80 gallons of cod livers; hot water or steam

Preparation of Cod Liver Oil

Ingredients

80 gallons of cod livers
hot water or steam

Directions

Heat a large pan with hot water or steam.
Place the cod livers in the pan.
Stir the livers continuously for four hours.
Dip off the oil as it rises to the surface.

Recipe from a historical cookbook (Internet Archive).

Transcribed from a scanned cookbook and modernised for today's kitchens. Where the book gave no heat or time, or said "a moderate oven", the temperatures and times here may be modern equivalents rather than the book's own figures.

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Preparation of Cod Liver Oil