Boiled Cod
Ingredients
Directions
Prepare
Soak the fish in cold water with a little salt for 30 minutes.
Wipe the fish dry and wrap it in a clean linen cloth, ensuring it fits the shape of the cod.
Cook
Place the wrapped fish in a fish kettle and cover it with boiling salted water.
Cook for nearly 1 hour.
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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What each ingredient does
- Cod
- Forms the main body of the dish, cooking gently to a flaky, moist texture.
- Coarse sea salt
- Seasons the fish and water, lightly firming the flesh during soaking.
The step that matters
Cook for nearly 1 hour. Holding the water at a gentle simmer rather than a hard boil keeps the cod tender and moist, since high heat toughens and dries the proteins.
“What each ingredient does” and “The step that matters” were written by Claude from this recipe’s own method and reviewed in samples by CompKitchen.
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