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Salt Codfish, Boiled

Boiled salt cod served with drawn butter or egg sauce.

From an old cookbook · modernised transcription
From a historical cookbook (Internet Archive) · 3 ingredients
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Salt Codfish, Boiled

Ingredients

Directions

Prepare

  1. Pound the codfish with a wooden mallet to tenderize it and help it soak faster.

  2. Soak the codfish in a pan with enough cold water to cover it, either at ten o'clock or just before going to bed.

Cook and serve

  1. In the morning, boil the soaked codfish in clear water for thirty minutes.

  2. Serve with drawn butter or an egg sauce.

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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What each ingredient does

Codfish
Salted fish that is the main component; soaking and boiling make it tender and less salty.

“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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