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Salt Cod With Egg Sauce

Name: Salt Cod With Egg Sauce
Ingredients: 1 lb. salt cod soaked, boiled and picked up very fine; 1 small cup milk or cream; 1 teaspoonful flour; 2 eggs beaten light; 2 tablespoonfuls of butter; Little chopped parsley; Half as much mashed potato as fish; Pepper to taste

A historic Canadian dish of salt cod soaked, cup milk, flour, eggs beaten light and butter. Adapted from Salt Cod With Egg Sauce, from The Canadian Family Cook Book (1914).

Adapted from Salt Cod With Egg Sauce, in The Canadian Family Cook Book (1914), preserved in the Open Recipe Archive's The Canadian Kitchen collection and marked public domain. The method is condensed from the original and the quantities are restated in modern units; see the archive record at https://github.com/AdamBouhmad/open-recipe-archive/blob/main/collections/canadian-kitchen/recipes/salt-cod-with-egg-sauce.md.

The dish

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Salt Cod With Egg Sauce

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Produce

Little chopped parsley
Half as much mashed potato as fish

Dairy & Eggs

1 smallcup milkChecked by You
2eggs beaten light
2 tbspbutterChecked by You

Pantry / Durable

1 tspflour

Spices & Seasoning

1 lbsalt cod soaked
Pepper to tasteChecked by You

Cooking Instructions

Heat the milk
Thicken with the flour, then the potato rubbed very fine
Add the butter, the eggs, and parsley
Last, add the fish
Stir and toss until smoking hot all through
Pour into a deep dish
Alternatively: make a sauce of all the ingredients except the fish and potato
Mix the fish and potato well together with a little melted butter
Heat in a saucepan, stirring all the while
Heap in the centre of a dish and pour the sauce over all

Adapted from Open Recipe Archive · The Canadian Family Cook Book (1914; archive record marked public domain). View a published recipe at Internet Archive (opens in a new tab)