Creamed Salt Codfish

Ingredients

• one and one-half cups fish
• three tablespoons butter
• two tablespoons flour
• one and one-half cups milk
• one egg

Method

1. 1

   Pick and soak fish in lukewarm water, then drain.

2. 2

   Melt butter, add flour and pepper, then gradually pour in milk.

3. 3

   Add fish and beaten egg, then pour over toasted bread and hard-boiled egg slices.

As published

This recipe was extracted from Chafing dish possibilities (1898) by Fannie Merritt Farmer, page 13. The excerpt below is the record exactly as published.

Creamed Salt Codfish Pick in pieces and soak in lukewarm water one and one-half cups fish; drain as soon as soft. Melt three tablespoons butter, add two tablespoons flour and a few grains pepper. Pour on gradually one and one-half cups milk. Add fish and one egg

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