Codfish Balls - American Recipe

Codfish Balls

🌍 American, American Home Cooking Difficulty: ●●○○○

🍳 Equipment: 2 forks, Saucepan, Bowl, Dover beater, Strainer, Bread-board, Colander with paper, Frying-pan, Perforated spoon

Classic codfish balls prepared in the simple American home style.

Ingredients

• ¼ pound salt codfish
• 3 or 4 potatoes
• 1 egg
• ½ teaspoon salt
• Fat for frying

Method

1. Soak — the fish overnight in cold water.
2. Boil — and mash the potatoes in accordance with directions on pages 66 and 68.
3. Remove — all skin and bones from the fish, and shred it with two forks.
4. Put — the shredded fish into a saucepan of boiling water, reduce the heat, and let simmer gently for ten minutes.
5. Remove — the saucepan from the fire, pour the contents through a strainer, and with a spoon press out all the water from the fish.
6. Measure — the fish in a cup, and add it to twice as much mashed potato as there is fish.
7. Beat — the egg and add it with the salt to the fish and potato, mixing the whole thoroughly.
8. Sprinkle — flour on the bread-board, and put the mixture a spoonful at a time on the board, rolling or moulding each spoonful into a ball.
9. Fry — the balls in plenty of hot fat m a frying-pan.
10. When — the balls are browned, lift them from the fat with a perforated spoon, and place them on soft crumpled paper in the colander.

Tags: codfish, potato, egg · Source: The Plain Sailing Cook Book (1922)