Codfish Puffs

Ingredients

• 3^ c cooked codfish
• i c mashed potatoes
• the yolk of i egg
• 34 c flour
• 3^ t baking powder
• % t pepper

Method

1. 1

   Mix the codfish, mashed potatoes, egg yolk, flour, baking powder, and pepper well together.

2. 2

   Then add the stiffly beaten egg white.

3. 3

   Drop from the tip of a spoon into hot fat and fry until golden brown.

Nutrition per serving

Estimated from matched ingredients across 4 servings.

As published

This recipe was extracted from Lessons in cooking through preparation of meals (1912) by Eva Roberta Robinson, page 211. The excerpt below is the record exactly as published.

CODFISH PUFFS CREAM SAUCE BREAD AND BUTTER COFFEE Codfish Puffs To 3^ c cooked codfish, broken into small pieces, add i c mashed potatoes, the yolk of i egg, 34 c flour, 3^ t baking 380 LESSONS IN COOKING powder, and % t pepper. Mix well together, then add thj stiffly beaten white of the egg. Drop from the tip of a spoon into hot fat, and fry until golden brown in color. Preparing the Meal Prepare the codfish puffs, then make the coffee. While the latter is cooking, make the cream sauce (Medium White Sauce), having the fat for the puffs heating in the mean- time. Cut the bread and butter, fall the cream pitcher, half fill the cereal bowls with puffed rice, and place all on the table. Then fry the puffs. Serve the cereal, then the codfish puffs, bread and butter and coffee. Saturday Breakfast — Cost Food Units Puffed Rice 10.025 730 Codfish Puffs 036 300 Bread and Butter 038 600 Coffee 04 Cream for Cereal and Coffee 062 400 Sugar for Cereal and Coffee 007 233 Total Breakfast $0,208 2,263 SATURDAY MORNING BAKING Baked Custard Four eggs beaten slightly, i>^ c sugar, }i t salt, i qt milk; bake slowly in cups set in a pan of hot water, p. 26. Sponge Cake Separate the yolks and whites of 4 eggs, and beat the whites until stiff. Make a syrup of ij^ c sugar and ^ c water, boiling a very few minutes, and add slowly to the egg whites, stirring all the time. Beat the yolks of the eggs until thick and lemon colored and add to the white mixture, carefully folding them in. Now sift 2 c pastry flour with i t baking powder

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