[Sca-cooks] Salt fish recipes?

[Johnna Holloway]

Doc's medievalccokery.com makes a search like this easy.
Search under lye for instance and one finds

This is an excerpt from *Koge Bog*
(Denmark, 1616 - Martin Forest, trans.)
The original source can be found at Martin Forest's websitewes 
<http://www.forest.gen.nz/Medieval/index.html>

XLIIX - Spit fish. Let it lie one night in water and coldcrushed lye. 
But if you need it quickly then seethe it in water mixed with some mild 
lye and then warm it in fresh water.

Search under fish and one finds dozens.

Johnnae

jenne at fiedlerfamily.net wrote:
> I know there's a recipe for salt fish in Welserin, but it calls for
> soaking the fish in lye. I've used modern salt cod, soaked for 24 hours
> and rolled in breadcrumbs, as a dish cooked over the fire, and we all
> liked it very much. Can you all point me to more recipes of things to do
> with salt fish? (Yes, i could go look for them, but I'm hoping to tap the
> brain trust / medieval cooking equivalent of Google Books for more
> complete answers.
>
> - Jadwiga
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