Cod (with Cream Sauce)

Ingredients

• the fish
• a piece of butter
• two tablespoonfuls of flour
• one sardine skinned and pounded
• a cupful of thick sour milk
• sufficient seasoning

Method

1. 1

   After boiling the cod, remove skin and bones, keeping it hot.

2. 2

   Brown butter in a saucepan, stir in flour, seasoning, sardine, and then add sour milk.

3. 3

   Pour the boiling sauce over the fish.

As published

This recipe was extracted from Cookery (1897) by Marguerite Ninet, page 23. The excerpt below is the record exactly as published.

Cod (with Cream Sauce).— After the fish has been boiled put it on a board, remove the skin and large bones, and keep it very hot. Brown in a saucepan a piece of butter, into which stir two tablespoonfuls of flour ; stir in sufficient seasoning, one sardine skinned and pounded, and a tablespoonful of mustard, and when these ingredients are thoroughly smooth add a cupful of thick sour milk

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