To dress a SALT COD

The Experienced English Housekeeper · Elizabeth Raffald · 1784

Source: The Experienced English Housekeeper
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Ingredients (5)

For dressing salt cod

salt cod ↝ Fish, cod, Atlantic, dried and salted [Finfish and Shellfish Products]
water ↝ Water, tap [Tap water]
glass of vinegar ↝ Vinegar [Mustard and other condiments]

For serving with salt cod

egg sauce ↝ Egg, whole, raw [Eggs and omelets]
parsnips boiled and beat fine with butter and cream ↝ Parsnips, raw [Vegetables and Vegetable Products]

Instructions (5)

Steep your salt fish in water all night, with a glass of vinegar; it will fetch out the salt, and make it eat like fresh fish.
The next day boil it.
When it is enough, pull it in flakes into your dish.
Then pour egg sauce over it, or parsnips boiled and beat fine with butter and cream.
Send it to the table on a water plate, for it will soon grow cold.

Original Text

To dress a SALT COD.
STEEP your salt fish in water all night, with
a glass of vinegar; it will fetch out the salt, and
make it eat like fresh fish; the next day boil it;
when it is enough, pull it in flakes into your
dish, then pour egg sauce over it, or parsnips
boiled and beat fine with butter and cream;
send it to the table on a water plate, for it will
soon grow cold.

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