Savoury Cod

Ingredients

• 1 or more lbs. fresh cod
• •77 pint hot water
• 1 tablespoonful vinegar
• 1 dessertspoonful flour
• 1 teaspoonful chopped parsley, or to taste
• •77 oz. butter
• 1 egg
• 1 teaspoonful salt
• 3 or 4 peppercorns

Method

1. 1

   Wash and dry the fish and cut it into nice pieces, not too small; put it into a saucepan with the water, vinegar, salt and peppercorns, and simmer very gently from 10 to 15 minutes, or until quite done; then take it up and keep it hot.

2. 2

   For the sauce mix the flour and butter to a smooth paste, add the fish-water gradually, taking out the peppercorns; boil it 3 minutes, stirring all the time, and let it slightly cool; beat the egg, stir it carefully in, add the parsley and pour it over the fish.

Nutrition per serving

As published

This recipe was extracted from Cookery book and general axioms for plain cookery (1890) by E. Briggs, page 27. The excerpt below is the record exactly as published.

SAVOURY COD. Ingredients : — 1 or more lbs. fresh cod. •77 pint hot water. 1 tablespoonful vinegar. 1 dessertspoonful flour. 1 teaspoonful chopped parsley, or to taste. \ oz. butter. 1 egg- \ teaspoonful salt. 3 or 4 peppercorns

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