With egg sauce (p.

169), mashed or mealy boiled potatoes, and sugar-beets, this makes the New-England "fish dinner" a thing of terror when poorly prepared, but both savory and delicate where the above rule is closely followed.
Fish-balls, and all the various modes of using salted cod, require this preparation beforehand.
SALT COD WITH CREAM.
Flake two pounds of cold boiled salt cod very fine.

Boil one pint of milk.
Mix butter the size of a small egg with two tablespoonfuls of flour, and stir into it.

Add a few sprigs of parsley or half an onion minced very fine, a pinch of cayenne pepper, and half a teaspoonful of salt.

Butter a quart pudding-dish.