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Fried Cod

From A year's cookery, 1880

Serves 4

Caper sauce can be used as an alternative.

A modern interpretation · AI-generated from the original record

Ingredients

  • slices of cod
  • pepper
  • salt
  • milk
  • flour
  • hot fat

Method

  1. Sprinkle cod slices with pepper and salt, let sit for an hour.

  2. Dip in milk, then flour.

  3. Fry in hot fat for about twenty minutes.

  4. Drain on kitchen paper and serve with maitre d'hotel butter and sauce.

As published

This recipe was extracted from A year's cookery (1880) by Phillis Browne, page 2. The excerpt below is the record exactly as published.

Fried Cod. — Sprinkle the slices of cod with pepper and salt, and let them lie for an hour. Dip them in milk on a plate, and flour them thoroughly. Fry them in plenty of hot fat

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