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Cod Sounds with Piquant Sauce

A dish of boiled cod heads served with piquant sauce.

From an old cookbook · modernised transcription
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Cod Sounds with Piquant Sauce

Ingredients

Directions

Prepare

  1. Soak and boil the cod sounds.

  2. Cut the sounds into small pieces.

  3. Prepare the Piquant sauce as directed.

Finish and serve

  1. Add the pieces of cod sounds to the sauce and heat through.

  2. Serve hot.

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

Cod sounds
Forms the main body of the dish and gives it a firm, flaky texture once cooked.
Piquant sauce
Provides the sharp, spiced flavour and moisture that coats the fish.

The step that matters

Heating the cod through in the sauce. Cod is delicate and its proteins toughen and dry out if held at a hard simmer. Warming the pieces gently in the sauce, just until hot, keeps them moist and tender.

“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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