Codfish Balls

Ingredients

• Two cups salt codfish
• one quart raw potatoes
• two teaspoons melted butter
• two eggs
• one saltspoon pepper
• salt if needed

Method

1. 1

   Wash fish and pick apart in cold water in one-half inch pieces; pare raw potatoes and cut into quarters, put potatoes and codfish into boiling water, cook twenty-five minutes, or until they are soft; drain very dry and shake over the stove; mash together until you cannot distinguish one from the other; beat eggs light, mix into fish with pepper and butter; work together with masher until light.

2. 2

   Have fat very hot, make mixture into small balls with floured hands, and cook in wire basket until a rich brown.

3. 3

   Drain on brown paper before serving.

As published

This recipe was extracted from Choice recipes (1900), page 23. The excerpt below is the record exactly as published.

CODFISH BALLS— Mrs. K, Two cups salt codfish, one quart raw potatoes (six good sized ones), two teaspoons melted butter, two eggs, one saltspoon pepper, salt if needed

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