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Boiled Salt Codfish (New England Style)

Name: Boiled Salt Codfish (New England Style)
Cuisine: Southern American
Ingredients: salt codfish; cold water; drawn-butter gravy

A historical main dish from The White House cook book; a comprehensive cyclopedia of information for the home .. (1913). Many cooks prefer soaking the fish over night.

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Original Historical Recipe

Preserved exactly as written in the original source

Original Ingredients

salt codfish
cold water
drawn-butter gravy

Original Instructions

1
Cut the fish into square pieces, cover with cold water, set on the back part of the stove
2
When hot, pour off water and cover again with cold water
3
Let it stand about four hours and simmer, not boil
4
Put the fish on a platter, then cover with a drawn-butter gravy and serve

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