Cod Pie

The Book of Household Management · Beeton, Mrs. (Isabella Mary) · 1861
Source
The Book of Household Management
Time
Cook: 60 min Total: 90 min
Yield
6.0 persons
Status
success · extracted 13 days ago
Not a recipe
No
Ingredients (13)
For sauce
Instructions (6)
  1. Lay the cod in salt for 4 hours, then wash it and place it in a dish.
  2. Season the cod, and add the butter and stock.
  3. Cover with the crust, and bake for 1 hour, or rather more.
  4. Now make the sauce, by mixing the ingredients named above.
  5. Give the sauce one boil, and pour it into the pie by a hole made at the top of the crust.
  6. The hole can be covered by a small piece of pastry cut and baked in any fanciful shape—such as a leaf, or otherwise.
Original Text
II. 236. INGREDIENTS.—2 slices of cod; pepper and salt to taste; 1/2 a teaspoonful of grated nutmeg, 1 large blade of pounded mace, 2 oz. of butter, 1/2 pint of stock No. 107, a paste crust (see Pastry). For sauce, 1 tablespoonful of stock, 1/4 pint of cream or milk, thickening of flour or butter; lemon-peel chopped very fine to taste; 12 oysters. Mode.—Lay the cod in salt for 4 hours, then wash it and place it in a dish; season, and add the butter and stock; cover with the crust, and bake for 1 hour, or rather more. Now make the sauce, by mixing the ingredients named above; give it one boil, and pour it into the pie by a hole made at the top of the crust, which can easily be covered by a small piece of pastry cut and baked in any fanciful shape—such as a leaf, or otherwise. Time.—1-1/2 hour. Average cost, with fresh fish, 2s. 6d. Seasonable from November to March. Sufficient for 6 persons. Note.—The remains of cold fish may be used for this pie.
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