Nantucket Style of Cooking Cod

Ingredients

• Take a white dried fish
• a little piece of butter
• a pinch of pepper
• milk in sufficient quantity

Method

1. 1

   Soak the fish in water for ten or twelve hours, chop it into smaller pieces, boil in fresh water for a few minutes, pour off the water, add fresh water and boil again.

2. 2

   Pour off the water, add milk to cover the fish, warm it, add butter and pepper, then mix in flour and serve.

As published

This recipe was extracted from The encyclopædia of practical cookery (1890) by Theodore Francis Garrett, page 427. The excerpt below is the record exactly as published.

Nantucket Style of Cooking1 Cod. - Take a white dried fish, cut out the thick part, and soak it in water for ten or twelve hours ; then chop it up into smaller pieces, put these in a saucepan with fresh water, and boil them for a few minutes. Pour off the water, add fresh, and boil for a few minutes longer ; then pour off the water from the pan, letting the fish remain, add milk in sufficient quantity to a little more than cover it, and place the pan on the fire ; when it is warm, put in a little piece of butter and a pinch of pepper

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