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Recipe for "cod-pudding"

NAME

     COD-PUDDING - A rich pudding with salt cod, eggs, and milk
     This was cooked on a TV program a few days ago and  is  very
     nice.

INGREDIENTS (Serves 4 people)

     500 g     salted cod
     60 g      rice
     3 dl      milk
     3         large eggs
               butter

PROCEDURE

          (1)  Preheat oven to 200 deg. C.
          (2)  Boil the salted cod until fully cooked.   Take  it
               out of the water and leave to cool.
          (3)  Skin the fish, debone it and make a stew out of it
               in a bowl, not adding anything.
          (4)  Boil the rice and mix it with the fish in the bowl
               to make a good mixture.
          (5)  Beat the eggs and mix it with the milk.
          (6)  Put the fish/rice mixture in a heat-resistant dish
               in  which  you  have  spread the butter.  Pour the
               milk/egg mixture over it and put it  in  the  oven
               for 40 minutes.

NOTES

     Icelandic saltfish is mostly exported  to  Spain,  Portugal,
     and  Italy,  where it is used in Christmas main dishes. Here
     in Iceland we just boil it, and usually eat it  with  boiled
     potatoes  and boiled turnips, cut in pieces.  As the fish is
     a bit dry we use butter with it, and sometimes brown bread.
     If you cannot get salt cod, you can make your own by salting
     a cod fillet and leaving it in the salt, refrigerated, for 3
     or 4 days, then wash thoroughly.

RATING

     Difficulty: easy.  Time: 20 minutes preparation, 40  minutes
     baking.  Precision: approximate measurement OK.

CONTRIBUTOR

     Eirikur T. Einarsson
     Marine Research Institute, Reykjavik, Iceland
     {mcvax,enea}!hafro!eirikur    eirikur@hafro.UUCP