To Boil Salt Fish
Ingredients
Directions
Prepare
Cut the fish into pieces and soak in water.
Place the pieces in a pot with cold water.
Cook and serve
Boil for about 20 minutes.
Serve with egg sauce and boiled parsnips in separate dishes.
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
- Salt fish
- The main protein, cured with salt; soaking draws out the excess salt before cooking.
The step that matters
Soak the salt fish fully. Salt fish is heavily cured, and soaking draws salt out of the flesh by osmosis. Soaking too briefly leaves the fish overly salty, while cooking in fresh water afterwards helps it become tender and palatable.
“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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