Salt Codfish
Ingredients
Directions
Wash the salt codfish and soak it in cold water overnight.
Change the water and cook the codfish slowly until it reaches the boiling point.
Reduce the heat to keep it hot without boiling for about 30 minutes.
Pick over the codfish and remove all skin and bones.
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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