[Sca-cooks] Salt fish recipes?

[jenne at fiedlerfamily.net]

Oh dear.
But what I'm looking for is a recipe for *SALT* fish (I searched on both
salt fish and salt cod in medievalcookery.com) that doesn't use lye...
-- Jadwiga

> 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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