Chowder Cod

Ingredients

• some thin slices of fat salt pork
• some sliced onions
• mixed sweet herbs
• thin pieces of codfish
• a layer of ship's biscuits soaked in milk
• a wineglassful of Madeira made hot
• some cooked mushrooms
• some oysters

Method

1. 1

   Layer pork, onions, herbs, cod, and biscuits in a stewpan.

2. 2

   Stew for 4-5 hours.

3. 3

   Add seasoning, Madeira, mushrooms, and oysters.

4. 4

   Stew for another 30 minutes.

5. 5

   Add minced cucumber before serving.

As published

This recipe was extracted from National viands à la mode (1895) by Harriet Anne de Salis, page 1. The excerpt below is the record exactly as published.

Chowder Cod Take some thin slices of fat salt pork and put them in a deep stewpan, and over these some sliced onions and mixed sweet herbs. On these flake some thin pieces of codfish and place them on the top of the pork and on that a layer of ship's biscuits soaked in milk, and fill up the saucepan with all these ingredients arranged alternately ; let it stew for four or five hours, then add pepper and salt to taste, a wineglassful of Madeira made hot, some cooked mushrooms

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