Baked Salt Cod with Bread-Crumbs

Ingredients

• some salt cod
• some fresh butter
• a pinch of grated nutmeg
• some cream
• sprinkle with bread-crumbs
• grated Parmesan or Gruyère cheese
• melted butter

Method

1. 1

   Soak salt cod for a few hours and boil it.

2. 2

   Remove bones and break into pieces.

3. 3

   Warm butter, flour, salt, pepper, nutmeg, and cream in a saucepan until it boils.

4. 4

   Place cod in a dish, pour sauce over, cool, pile fish in a pyramid, smooth with a knife, sprinkle with bread-crumbs and cheese, moisten with melted butter, and bake until browned.

As published

This recipe was extracted from 366 menus and 1200 recipes of the Baron Brisse in French and English (1884) by Brisse, L©♭on baron, page 45. The excerpt below is the record exactly as published.

Baked salt cod with bread-crumbs, Gigot de sept heures. Stewed leg of mutton. Bécassines rôties. Roast snipe. Epinards nouveaux à la crème. Young spinach with cream. Tourte aux fraises. Strawberry tart. Baked salt cod with bread-crumbs. Soak some salt cod for a few hours and boil it, remove all bones and break it into pieces. Warm some fresh butter, flour, salt, black pepper, a pinch of grated nutmeg, and cream in à saucepan, stir with a wooden spoon until it boils ; place the pieces of cod in a deep dish, and pour the hot sauce over them; when cold; pile up the fish in a pyramid onatin or plated dish, smooth over with a warm knife, and sprinkle with bread-crumbs and grated Parmesan or Gruyère cheese; moisten thoroughly with melted butter

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