Fish Pudding

Ingredients

• 1 lb Fish
• equal bulk of mashed potatoes
• 1 Egg
• 1 oz. Butter
• Pepper and Salt
• Pepper and Salt
• a few grains of cayenne pepper

Method

1. 1

   Take any remains of boiled fish; carefully remove the flesh from the bones, and cut it up into small dice.

2. 2

   Mix with equal bulk of mashed potatoes.

3. 3

   Melt the butter and pour it in, mixing well; add salt, pepper, and cayenne.

4. 4

   Beat up one egg and add it last; mix all well together.

5. 5

   Put in a pudding-dish, smooth and score the top, and bake for half an hour.

6. 6

   For small cakes, flour them well outside and fry in hot dripping until brown on both sides.

As published

This recipe was extracted from Household cookery and laundry work (1882) by Black Mrs, page 9. The excerpt below is the record exactly as published.

FISH PUDDING. 1 lb Fish. Potatoes. 1 Egg. Pepper and Salt. 1 oz. Butter. Take any remains of boiled fish ; carefully remove the flesh from the bones, and cut it up into small dice, and have equal bulk of mashed potatoes. Put both into a basin and mix them together with a fork, then melt the butter and pour it in, mixing well; add salt and pepper and a few grains of cayenne pepper

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