Cod Pudding

Ingredients

• a thick slice of cold cooked cod
• two tablespoons of butter
• one of chopped onions
• enough milk to make the fish of the consistency of mashed potatoes
• pepper
• salt

Method

1. 1

   Flake the cod and heat it with butter and onions.

2. 2

   Gradually add milk until it reaches the consistency of mashed potatoes.

3. 3

   Season with pepper and salt, and serve with toast.

As published

This recipe was extracted from The cult of the chafing dish (1904) by Frank Schloesser, page 17. The excerpt below is the record exactly as published.

Cod Pudding. A good Cornish way of cooking cod is to make a pudding of it, which is quite chafFable. Use a thick slice of cold cooked cod- Remove skin and bones and flake it up smallish with a couple of forks. Put it in the Chafing Dish with two tablespoons of butter and one of chopped onions ; hot it up, and whilst heating (lower the flame before actual boiling) add gradually enough milk to make the fish of the consistency of mashed potatoes ; add pepper and salt

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