Codfish Fake

Ingredients

• some codfish — old salt fish
• lots of butter
• four ; but be careful about flour
• four of these big mealy potatoes
• black pepper

Method

1. 1

   Boil the codfish well to remove salt.

2. 2

   Boil some plain water and put in lots of butter and flour to make gravy.

3. 3

   Mash boiled potatoes and spread with codfish, then pour gravy over and add black pepper.

As published

This recipe was extracted from Statesmen's dishes; and how to cook them (1890) by Katherine Golden Bitting Collection on Gastronomy (Library of Congress), page 7. The excerpt below is the record exactly as published.

CODFISH FAKE. BY COL. GILBERT A. PIERCE. (Senator from North Dakota.) JAKE some codfish — old salt fish, the saltiest you can buy, and take all you can get. Then boil it well, just as long as you want to; boil all the salt out of it, or as much as you can get out. Of course you boil this in water. The gravy is the most important part. You boil some plain water and put in butter — lots of butter — and four ; but be care- ful about flour, not to get too much. The gravy wants to be of a consistency between Washington milk and real cream. Have a big pot of boiled potatoes, boiled with their jackets on. For one person take four of these big mealy potatoes, take jackets off and mash very fine all over a big dinner-plate. Spread this area of potato with the fine codfish, leaving no part uncovered. Next, pour gravy over the entire surface of fish. Pour copiously, after which black pepper

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