Codfish Balls by Jason Morris

½ lb. salt codfish

3 cups diced raw potatoes

1 egg, beaten

2 tbsp. butter or margarine

¼ tsp pepper

Freshen codfish by soaking in water several hours or over-night.  Dice.  Cook potatoes and codfish in boiling water until potatoes are tender; drain.  Beat with electric mixer and add egg, butter or margarine, and pepper.  Beat thoroughly.  Drop by heaping tablespoons (about the size of golfballs) into hot fat (375 F).  Fry until golden brown, about 2 to 3 minutes, turning once.  Drain.  Makes 30.

 
Newfoundland Lobster Salad by Tony Young

 3 freshly boiled lobsters, shelled

½ cup mayonnaise

1 small onion, finely minced

3 hard cooked eggs, chopped

½ cup sweet pickles, chopped

½ tsp salt and a few grains of pepper.

Cut lobster into bite size pieces.  Add other ingredients and toss together.  Serve on lettuce leaves.

 

Baked Turrs

Bread crumbs, margarine, onion, pepper, salt, savory, turrs,

2 turrs, 2 cups of fine bread crumbs, 1 chopped onion, 1/4 cup margarine, 1/2 tsp. salt, 1 tbsp. savory, 1/4 tsp. pepper.
Gravy: 2tbsp. flour
Pastry: 1/3 cup margarine, 2 cups flour, 2 tsp. baking powder, 1/2 tsp. salt, 2 or 3 tbsp. cold water.

Dressing
In a mixing bowl, mix together 2 cups of bread crumbs, 1 chopped onion, 1/4 cup of soft margarine, 1/2 tsp. salt, 1 tbsp. savory, and 1/4 tsp. pepper.

Cooking
Clean the turrs and drain well.
Stuff the turrs with the dressing and fasten with skewers.
Place in roasting pan and prick the birds so that fat will drain off.
Sprinkle with salt and pepper.
Bake about 1/2 hour at about 400F degrees to render off fat.
Remove the birds from the oven and pour off the fat.
Lower the oven to 350F degrees, return the birds to the oven, and bake for about 1 1/2 hours more.
Remove the turrs from the roasting pan
Add water to the roasting pan and make gravy by adding flour thickening. (See below for recipe.)
Replace bird in roasting pan and cover with pastry (See below for recipe.)
Bake for about 20 minutes until brown.

Flour Thickening
Take a small jar with a cover.
Place 1/4 cup of cold water in the jar.
On top of the water place 2 tbsp. of flour.
Place the cover on the jar and shake until the mixture is smooth
Add to liquid from meat to make it thicker.

Pastry
Cut margarine into flour, baking powder, and salt until the mixture resembles bread crumbs.

Sprinkle in water, 1 tbsp. at a time and mix.
Gather the pastry into a ball and place on lightly floured board.
Roll out the pastry to the correct size to cover the birds.

 

Partridge Soup

Carrots, flour, onion, rabbits, salt, salt pork, potato, and turnip

1 lb. salt beef, 1 or 2 partridge, 1 diced turnip, 2 diced carrots, 1 finely chopped onion, 1/2 cup of rice

Fill soup pot almost full with hot water.
Cut salt beef into 1" cubes.
Cut partridge into small pieces.
Add salt beef and partridge to water.
Cook for about 1 1/2 hours. Add diced carrots and turnip and cook for 10 minutes.
Add rice and onions and cook for 20 minutes more.
Serve hot.

 

Seal Flipper Pie

Baking soda, baking powder, carrots, seal flippers, flour, butter, onion, pepper, salt, salt pork, turnip


2 flippers, 1 tbsp. baking soda, 2 tbsp flour, salt, pepper, 1/4 lb. salt pork cut into small cubes, 1 chopped onion, 2 diced carrots, 1 diced turnip.
Pastry: 1/3 cup margarine, 2 cups flour, 2 tsp. baking powder, 1/2 tsp. salt, 2 or 3 tbsp. cold water.

Soak the seal flippers for 1/2 hour in cold water to which 1 tbsp. of baking soda has been added.
The fat will turn white. Remove all the fat.
Mix 2 tbsp. of flour with salt and pepper
Dredge the flippers with the flour mixture.
CooK the salt pork in a fry pan.
Fry the flippers until brown in the rendered salt pork fat.
Add a little water and simmer until partly tender.
Put the flippers in a roaster with the onion and the cubed carrot and turnip, and add 1 cup of water.
Cover and bake at 350F degrees for 2 to 3 hours.
Remove from oven and take flippers from roaster.
Adding 1 1/2 cups of water to the roaster and stir well
Add flour thickening (See recipe at the bottom,) and stir well until thicken to make gravy.
Place the flippers back in the roaster and cover with pastry (See recipe at the bottom.) Bake at 400F for about 25 minutes until pastry is brown.

Flour Thickening
Take a small jar with a cover.
Place 1/4 cup of cold water in the jar.
On top of the water place 2 tbsp. of flour.
Place the cover on the jar and shake until the mixture is smooth
Add to liquid from meat to make it thicker.
Pastry

Cut margarine into flour, baking powder, and salt until the mixture resembles bread crumbs.
Sprinkle in water, 1 tbsp. at a time and mix.
Gather the pastry into a ball and place on lightly floured board.
Roll out the pastry to a thickness of about 1/2" to 3/4" and to the correct size to cover the flippers.

 


Fried Cod Tongues

Cod fish tongues, flour, margarine, pepper, salt

32 cod fish tongues, 1 1/2 cups of flour, 3 tbs. margarine or cooking oil, 1 tsp. salt, 1/2 tsp. pepper.

Carefully wash fresh cod tongues and dry in a paper towel.
Put flour, salt, and pepper together in a plastic page. Add tongues and shake until they are covered evenly with flour.
Melt margarine in large saucepan
Add tongues and cook until golden brown

Serve hot, with mashed potatoes, carrots, and green peas