To Boil a Cod's Head
From The thorough good cook, 1895
Serves 4
For preservation, cleanse and sprinkle with salt and sugar, cut into slices, and soak before boiling.
Presented as published in 1895. Historical recipes may not meet modern food-safety standards. Cook from the modern interpretation below, not the original instructions.
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This recipe was extracted from The thorough good cook (1895) by George Augustus Sala, page 96. The excerpt below is the record exactly as published.
To Boil a Cod's Head. Wash it clean ; tie it up and dry it with a cloth. Allow for every three measures of water one of salt ; when it. 158 THE THOROUGH GOOD COOK. boils, take off the scum, put in tlie fisli, and keep it boiling very fast for twenty-five minutes. Serve with it the roe cut into slices and fried with the chitterlings : garnish with curled parsley and horseradish
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