Cape Cod Turkey
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Ingredients:
1 box salt cod fish (1 pound)1/4 pound salt pork
8 medium potatoes, boiled and peeled
1 cup medium cream sauce
1 hardcooked egg
Instructions:
Cover the cod with cold water, bring to a boil, drain. Repeat this process 2 or 3 times, then simmer the fish until tender, about 10 minutes. Meanwhile boil the potatoes, cube and try out the salt pork, and prepare the cream sauce and the hardcooked egg. When serving pour the cream sauce over the potatoes and the fish, add the sliced egg and sprinkle with the pork scraps.Browse Similar Recipes
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My grandmother used to mave a slightly different version of this with shallots and no egg, mashed into a potato. A very good version just the same. It takes me back a few years.
I grew up in the 50′s eating something very similar to this recipe. I loved it!! Unfortunately the cost of the cod fish is now through the roof.
This is our families traditional Christmas Day dinner. This recipe is something that we have been making in our family for generations. We don’t use the hard boiled egg, we soak raw onion rings in vinegar and top the dinner with that…and the drippings from the fatback! So unhealthy…That’s why we only have it once a year, but it is SO GOOD! Everyone who has turned their noses up at the sound of it have become true lovers of this recipe once they’ve had it! Try it!!
Cape Cod Turkey came from the whaling ships of New Bedford. The ingredients of potatoes, salted pork, beets were food available on board.
This is how we always served it, fried pork with drippings, boiled potatoes and beets.