Fish-balls
From A Little Cook-Book for a Little Girl, 1905
Brush off excess flour after rolling.
Presented as published in 1905. Historical recipes may not meet modern food-safety standards. Cook from the modern interpretation below, not the original instructions.
A modern interpretation · AI-generated from the original record
Ingredients
Method
As published
This recipe was extracted from A Little Cook-Book for a Little Girl (1905) by Caroline French Benton, page 7. The excerpt below is the record exactly as published.
Fish-balls One morning there was quite a good deal of cold mashed potato in the ice-box, so Margaret decided to have fish-balls for breakfast. Her rule said: Take a box of prepared codfish and put it in the colander and pour a quart of boil- ing water through it, stirring it as you do so. Let it drain while you heat two cups of mashed potato in the double boiler, with half a cup of hot milk, beating and stirring till it is smooth. Squeeze the water from the codfish and mix with the potato. Beat one egg without separating it, and put this in, too, with a very little pepper
Read the full page as publishedCollapse the page
Cook this with the app: pantry check, scaling, and the assistant.