To Boie Salt Fish
Ingredients
Directions
Soak the salt fish in a large quantity of cold water overnight.
Expose the fish to the air for some time.
Put the fish back into water and repeat until softened.
Brush the fish clean and wash it thoroughly.
Place the fish in a pot with plenty of cold water.
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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