Codfish Puff

Ingredients

• One pint boiled picked codfish
• one quart cold boiled chopped potatoes
• three slices salt pork
• one-third cup milk
• some butter

Method

1. 1

   Mix codfish and potatoes together.

2. 2

   Fry salt pork until brown, remove half, and add fish and potatoes to the remaining pork.

3. 3

   Steam for 5 minutes without stirring.

4. 4

   Add milk and stir.

5. 5

   Place remaining pork around the edge of the pan, add butter, and simmer for 30 minutes until a brown crust forms.

6. 6

   Turn onto a platter and serve.

Nutrition per serving

Estimated from matched ingredients across 6 servings.

As published

This recipe was extracted from The new home cook book (1896), page 63. The excerpt below is the record exactly as published.

CODFISH PUFF. Mrs. Banks. Recipe the same as for codfish balls put in an earthern baking plate; smooth over the top, and put over some butter, and then in a hot oven to bake. VALUABLE KECIPES. 153 CODFISH HASH. Mrs. N. P. Wilder. One pint boiled picked codfish well freshened, one quart cold boiled chopped potatoes mixed well together, three slices salt pork freshened, cut in very small pieces and fried brown ; remove half the pork, and add your fish and potatoes to the remainder; let it stand and steam five minutes without stirring; be careful not to let it burn; then add one-third cup milk

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