Codfish Balls

Ingredients

• One pint of finely-chopped cooked salt-fish
• six medium-sized potatoes
• one egg
• one heaping tablespoonful of butter
• pepper
• two tablespoonfuls of cream
• four of milk

Method

1. 1

   Boil potatoes in water for half an hour.

2. 2

   Drain, mash with fish and butter, add pepper, milk, and egg.

3. 3

   Shape into balls the size of an egg and fry in boiling fat until brown, about three minutes.

Nutrition per serving

As published

This recipe was extracted from Ransom's family receipt book, 1885 (1885) by D. Ransom, Son & Co, page 2. The excerpt below is the record exactly as published.

peppercorns and six whole cloves. Boil gently from ten to twenty minutes; salt and pepper to taste. Strain through an old napkin. This is now ready for serving as a simple clear soup or for the foundation of all kinds of clear soups. TOMATO SOFP.-To two quarts of stock add 1¥JL one can Gf tomatoes or twelve fresh ones; boil one hour; add a table¬ spoonful of flour, strain, let it boil to desired thickness; slice one lemon into bottom of soup tureen and turn over the soup. SOUP.— Half a pint of green peas, half a pint of cauli- ^ flower, one pint of turnip, carrot, celery and string beans (all the four vegetables being included in the pint), half a cupful of tomato, half a pint of asparagus heads, two quarts of soup stock — any kind will do; three table¬ spoonfuls of butter, three tablespoonfuls of flour, and salt and pepper. Cook all the vegetables, except the peas and tomato, in water to cover one hour. Cook butter and dry flour together until smooth, but not brown; stir into the stock, which has been heated to the boiling point. Now add the tomato and simmer gently fifteen minutes; then strain. Add the peas and cooked vege¬ tables to the strained soup, and simmer again for thirty minutes. Serve small slices of toasted bread in a separate dish. ^OD»FI8H IBA.JL.Iu®, — One pint of finely-chopped cooked salt- fish, six medium-sized potatoes, one egg, one heaping tablespoonful of butter, pepper, two tablespoonfuls of cream or four of milk

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