Matelote Of Codfish Recipe

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Instructions

Wash and rinse a medium-sized cod; wipe until dry and remove the bones.
Fill the fish with a dressing made of 1/2 pint of oysters, a small pint of bread crumbs, 2 teaspoons of butter, 1/2 an onion, 1 egg, 1/2 tablespoon of chopped parsley, and a little pepper.
Lay some slices of salt pork on the grating of your baking-pan; place the fish on these, and lay more slices on top of the fish.
Boil the fish-bones in a pint of water and pour into the bottom of potatoes and put them in a saucepan with 2 quarts of cold water.
Add 1/2 tablespoon of salt, 4 sprigs of parsley, and 1 clove stuck in an onion.
Boil twenty-five minutes, then add the pieces of codfish.
Cook slowly for ten minutes.
Take the fish out and place it on a hot platter, removing all pieces of skin and bone.
Drain the potatoes, then place them around the fish.
Put 1 heaping tablespoon of butter and 1 of flour into a small saucepan and stir for three minutes, but do not let it brown.
Slowly pour into the saucepan 1 pint of the strained water in which the fish was cooked.
Season with 1/2 saltspoonful of pepper, and let it simmer for eight minutes.
Remove from the fire and place in the pan.
Bake for an hour, basting occasionally with the gravy and the butter.
Have a bouquet of herbs in one corner of your baking-pan.
Pour the gravy around the fish and serve immediately.