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mildens the paste. Instead of cream sauce — which is specially for 

 cod — butter as at Beypore, margarine, etc., may be used ; ground 

 pepper should be invariably added with of course any needed salt, 

 without which a paste is savourless. 



210. An American recipe for ' cod lish balls ' (really for a 

 paste which can be used for that favourite American dish) is as 

 follows: this, under the name of 'fish pudding,' was seen in 

 Japan also. But most housewives will prefer to make fish balls 

 after their own recipes by simply buying salt or canned fish and 

 mixing them with potato, etc., according to taste ; the recipe is 

 merely given as suggestive. 



Take lOO lb. salt fish (cod in America), 125 lb. potatoes, 

 10 lb. raw onions, and 13 lb. pure fat (butter, margarine, etc.). 

 Soak the fish in warm water to remove salt and then grind or 

 pound to a pulp ; boil, skin, and mash potatoes, and thoroughly 

 mix the fish and potato with the onions and fat; salt (and salt- 

 petre) with pepper and other condiments or herbs are added to 

 taste. The mixture is then put into cans, usually I to 3 lb., sealed 

 and processed. 



This recipe can of course be followed (and varied) with any fish, 

 which may, perhaps preferably, be fresh and not salt. 



211. Fish meal. — -This preparation is fish salted— in various 

 degrees but not hard salted — dried and reduced to fine powder to 

 which spices may be added. The powder or meal may then be put 

 up, after thorough drying, into cans, closed, exhausted, and pro- 

 cessed. Prawn powder is well know^ in India, but other fish 

 meals are nowhere in the market. These meals are best packed 

 in glass, but this is not necessary ; when in tin these should be 

 double lacquered and in the case of prawns, lined with vegetable 

 parchment paper. 



As the powder contains salt and spices and is thoroughly dried, 

 iiermetical sealing is not absolutely necessary for an immediate 

 market ; it may be put up in cartons or in lever top cans, etc. 



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