Fish Pie

Ingredients

• £ teacupful cold boiled fish
• 2 teacupful mashed boiled yam or sweet potato
• 1 egg
• 1 teaspoonful butter, lard or ground nut oil
• 1 dessertspoonful of bread crumbs or crushed biscuit
• 1 teaspoonful finely chopped onion
• 1 pinch salt and pepper
• (A teaspoonful chopped parsley or tatassa and a pinch of nutmeg)

Method

1. 1

   Prepare the mixture in the same way as for the croquettes.

2. 2

   Put it into the small pie dish, spread over the bread crumbs and place in the oven till the top is slightly brown.

3. 3

   This is a good dish for breakfast.

As published

This recipe was extracted from Practical West African cookery (1910) by S. Leith-Ross, page 25. The excerpt below is the record exactly as published.

Fish Pie. (I). £ teacupful cold boiled fish. 2 teacupful mashed boiled yam or sweet potato. 1 egg. 1 teaspoonful butter, lard or ground nut oil. 1 dessertspoonful of bread crumbs or crushed biscuit. 1 teaspoonful finely chopped onion. 1 pinch salt and pepper. (A teaspoonful chopped pars- ley or tatassa and a pinch of nutme

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