Cod, Croquettes of

Ingredients

• one pound of cold cod
• one dozen oysters
• four ounces of finely-grated bread-crumbs
• a little pepper
• a little salt
• a little cream

Method

1. 1

   Mince the cold cod very finely with the oysters, pepper, salt, and bread-crumbs.

2. 2

   Work the mixture well with a little cream and form into balls the size of an egg.

3. 3

   Dip in beaten egg and bread-crumbs, fry in hot lard until lightly browned, and serve garnished with parsley.

Nutrition per serving

Estimated from matched ingredients across 3 servings.

As published

This recipe was extracted from Cassell's dictionary of cookery (1892) by Cassell & Company, page 390. The excerpt below is the record exactly as published.

a Little scraped horse-radish, or fried oysters, as garaish. Oyster or anchovy sauce, or plain molted butter, may be served with it. Time to boil, twenty minutes for a .moderate-sized piece, longer for a large one. When the flesh leaves the bone easily the fish is cooked enough. Probable cost, 8d. per pound. Sufficient, four pounds for six persons. ■ Cod, Cold. — The remains of cod may be used in various ways. One thing, however, should be attended to, and that is to remove the flesh from the skin and bones before it is quite cold. AVhen this is done the cod may be simply ' arranged in neat flakes on a plate, ]>eppcrcd, a little \'inegar poured over it, and the fish gami.shed with parsley, and served thus, it will not be a despicable addition to the breakfast-table, though further trouble will be amply repaid. If any cold sauce is left, it may be poured over the fish, bread-crumbs or mashed potatoes spread on it, a piece of butter dotted here and there, and the whole browned in a good oven, or before the fire {see Fish Pudding). It may be served with macaroni (see Cod and Macaroni). It may be made into cakes, and served as cutlets {gee Cod-fish Cakes). It may be moulded {see Fish jNIould). It maybe stewed, and served with maitre d' hotel sauce, Italian sauce, or supreme sauce. It may bo curried, cooked with grated Pamiesan, or with becha- mel, or bro^^'a sauce, or served au gratin, a la Proven(,'ale, or as a mayonnaise. The pieces may be put into a stewpan, taking care not to omit the sound, the tongue, or the eatable parts about the head. Any sauce that may be left may then be poured over it, a lump of butter added, and a dozen osvters -with their liquor, or nmssels, or cockles, or a few shrimps. The preparations may then bo heated gently, put into a dish, bread-crumbs strewed over, and browned. In numerous ways cold cod, or cold fish of any kind, may be, with a little trouble and attention, presented again at table, and will form a palatable and pleasing dish. Cod, Crimped. — Make some deep cuts as far as the bones on both sides of a perfectly fresh cod, making tlie cuts at two inches dis- tance, and cut one or two gashes on the cheeks ; then lay the fish in cold water, with a table- spoonful of vinegar in it, for an hour or two. It may afterwai-ds be boiled or fried. If it is to be boiled, it should be plunged at once into boiling water, and then simmered gently. Crimping renders the flesh fiimer, and makes it better both to cook and to serve. Cod, Croquettes of. — Take the remains of cold cod, remove the skin and bones, and mince one pound very finely with one dozen oysters, or two dozen cockles, a little pepper and salt, and four ounces of finely-gi-ated bread-crimibs ; work the mixture well together I \\ith a Httle cream, and make it up into balls about Ihe size of an egg; dip these in beaten egg and bread-crumbs, fry them in a little hot I laid till lightly browned, and serve them piled I high in a dish, and garnished with parsley. ! Time to fry, ten minutes. Probable cost, 6d., j exclusive of the cold cod and oysters. Allow I two croquettes for each person. 1 Cod, Curried. — Put a piece of butter j about the size of a large egg into a saucepan, let I it melt, then fry in it three pounds of cod cut into pieces about two inches square, two large I onions, and one apple cut into thin slices, a tea- spoonful of thyme, and a bay-leaf. Let them remain untU the onions are nicely browned, then, add a breakfast-cupful of good stock, a tea- spoonful of curiy powder, a tea-spoonful of cuny j paste, and a tea-spoonful of ground rice mixed ! smoothly with a little of the stock. Simmer gently for a quarter of an hour, add a small cupful of cream, two pinches of salt, and one of pepper. Put the cod on a hot dish, and the gra^y over it, and ser^■e with a waU of rice roimd the dish. Time, three-quarters of an hour. Probable cost of cod, 8d. per pound. Sufficient for five or six pei'sons. Cod, Curried (another way). — Take the remains of cold cod, remove the skin and bones, break it into flakes, and fry it a golden brown in some hot dripping or lard. Drain it, and fry some sliced onions in the same fat, put them M-itli the fish, and stir into the fat some rice flour. Mix it quite smoothly, and add by degrees sufiicient stock to make the saiico of the consistency of cream; add a tea-spoonful of curry powder, half a tea-spoonful of salt, and two or throe grains of cayenne. Put the cod and onions with the curry, and let it simmer for a few minutes. Place the fish on a hot dish ; add a small cupful of cream to the gravy, let it nearly boil, then pour it over the fish, and f- en-e with "a wall of rice or not. Time, half an hour. Probable cost, 6d., exclu.sivo of the cold fish and the cream. Sufiicient, ©no pound of cold fish vdth. sauce, for three persons. COD ( 146) COD Cod-flsh Cakes. — Take the remains of cold cod, remove the skin and bones, and weigh the meat. To every pound of cod allow one pound and a half of mashed potatoes, a tea- spoonfid of salt, half a tea-spoonful of pepper, a tea-spoonful of thyme, half a tea-spoonlul of chopiX)d onion, one egg, and sufficient milk to bind the mixture together. If the fish is salted, the salt must be omitted. Make the paste up into small cakes about an inch thick, fry them in hot butter or lard till they are well browned on both sides, and serve them as hot as possible. Time to fry, ten minutes. Probable cost, 6d., exclusive of the cold fish. Allow two or three cakes for each person. Cod, Head and Shoulders of.— Wash the fish thoroughly, rub a little salt

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