Fish Cakes

Ingredients

• One pound boiled potatoes
• one pound salt fish
• one egg
• three table-spoonfuls of bread crumbs
• one half tea-spoonful of pepper
• two table-spoonfuls of milk
• one ounce of dripping

Method

1. 1

   Soak salt fish overnight in cold water.

2. 2

   Boil in fresh water for twenty minutes.

3. 3

   Remove skin and bones, and place fish in a basin.

4. 4

   Boil and mash potatoes, then mix with fish, pepper, and other ingredients.

5. 5

   Form into cakes and fry until golden.

Nutrition per serving

Estimated from matched ingredients across 2 servings.

As published

This recipe was extracted from Handbook of practical cookery (1886) by Matilda Lees Dods, page 173. The excerpt below is the record exactly as published.

FISH CAKES. 269 hot dish before a clear fire. Place on the dish the slices of bacon, lift them one by one with a fork, and hold each close to the fire for three minutes, allowing the dripping to fall on the hot dish. Macaroni and Meat Shape.— One half pound cold meat, one quarter pound macaroni, two table-spoonfuls bread crumbs, one tea-spoonful salt, one quarter tea-spoonful pepper, one half gill milk. Chop on a board very finely the cold meat, when chopped add to it the bread crumbs, pepper, and salt. Mix all well together. Wash the macaroni, place it in a small sauce-pan and cover it with cold water. Place the pan over the fire and allow the water to boil for fifteen minutes. Pour away every drop of water, and allow the macaroni to get cold. Cut it then in pieces about an iuch in length. Take now a small dry basin, and grease it well with dripping ; then place in it a layer of the cut macaroni, then a layer of the cold meat and bread crumbs, then another layer of macaroni, and so on, till the basin is filled. Pour over the milk, and twist over the top of the basin a sheet of paper. Place the basin in a sauce-pan, and pour round enough boiling water to come half-way up the basin, and let the water boil for an hour and a half. Remove the paper, and turn out the shape on a hot dish. Fish Cakes.— One pound boiled potatoes, one pound salt fish, one egg, three table-spoonfuls of bread crumbs, one half tea-spoonful of pepper, two table-spoonfuls of milk, one ounce of dripping

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