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.