Salt Cod Fish - Creole Style

Total Time: 8 hrs 35 mins Preparation Time: 8 hrs 10 mins Cook Time: 25 mins

Ingredients

• 1 small onion, sliced
• 2 tomatoes, peeled & quartered
• 1 green pepper, de seeded & chopped
• 2 ounces butter or 2 ounces bacon fat
• 8 ounces cooked salt fish, flaked
• salt & pepper
• 8 ounces cooked yams or 8 ounces english potatoes, sliced
• 2 ounces butter
• 1/2 pint milk (u.s 1 1/4 cups)
• 2 teaspoons parsley

Recipe

• 1 to prepare salt fish: soak salt fish overnight in cold water, drain. put into a saucepan, covered with fresh cold water, bring to the boil & simmer for about 15 minutes.
• 2 fry the onion, tomatoes & pepper in heated lard or bacon fat.
• 3 add the fish & mix thoroughly.
• 4 season to taste.
• 5 arrange the yam or potato slices to cover the bottom and sides of a greased ovenproof dish.
• 6 pile in the fish mixture.
• 7 dot with butter & milk.
• 8 sprinkle with parsley & bake in a moderately hot oven for 20 minutes (375° gas mark 5).