Potato and Codfish Balls

Ingredients

• half a cup of hot milk
• one egg
• a very little pepper
• flour for rolling
• a kettle of hot lard

Method

1. 1

   Boil potato in a double boiler with hot milk, beating until smooth.

2. 2

   Mix with codfish, add beaten egg and pepper, and beat well.

3. 3

   Form into small balls, roll in flour, and drop into hot lard.

4. 4

   Cook until light brown, then serve with parsley.

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.

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, and again beat it all well. Turn it out on a floured board, and make into small balls, rolling each one in flour as it is done, and brushing off most of the flour afterward. Have ready a FOR A LITTLE GIRL 31 kettle of hot lard,

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