Provincetown Creamed Codfish

Total Time: 15 mins
Preparation Time: 5 mins
Cook Time: 10 mins

Ingredients

• Servings: 4


• 2 cups salt cod fish, soaked overnight in several changes of water and cooked


• 1 tablespoon butter


• 1 tablespoon flour


• 1 cup milk, hot


• 1/8 teaspoon pepper


• 1 egg yolk, beaten

Recipe

• 1 flake codfish.


• 2 melt the butter, add flour and stir until well incorporated; add hot milk and pepper.


• 3 stir over medium heat until boiling.


• 4 add fish and beat well.


• 5 add beaten egg yolk and stir well.


• 6 serve at once.


• 7 **variation: add 3 hard-cooked eggs, chopped, to the creamed fish before filling the potato shells. add mashed potato, brush with melted butter and place under hot broiler until golden.