Week Two...

This week's adventure: Codfish Balls!! (Insert joke here)

CODFISH BALLS.

Take a pint bowl of codfish picked very fine, two pint bowls of whole raw peeled potatoes, sliced thickly; put them together in plenty of cold water and boil until the potatoes are thoroughly cooked; remove from the fire and drain off all the water. Mash them with the potato masher, add a piece of butter the size of an egg, one well-beaten egg, and three spoonfuls of cream or rich milk. Flour your hands and make into balls or cakes. Put an ounce each of butter and lard into a frying pan; when hot, put in the balls and fry a nice brown. Do not freshen the fish before boiling with the potatoes. Many cooks fry them in a quantity of lard similar to boiled doughnuts.

So, last Saturday we had some friends over for dinner, and I decided to bust out my experiment on them, and see what would happen.

Again, with this recipe I used shortening instead of lard, but other than that, everything was done like the instructions said. (I went with the cake option, instead of the round ball option.)

Overall, the fish balls weren't bad. To be honest, they didn't really taste like fish, they just tasted like a potato pancake. But they were tasty enough.

Mmmmm, smashed stuff

Mmmmmmm, smashed and fried stuff.

All ready.

I guess things so far have gone pretty well, so I may start trying to find some more, well, interesting recipes. We'll see what next week brings.

Take it easy, all.