Codfish Steak (New England Style)

Original Ingredients

• medium-sized fresh codfish
• salt
• one pound of salt fat pork
• corn meal
• lemon juice
• freshly ground pepper
• Johnny Cake

Original Instructions

1. 1

   Select a medium-sized fresh codfish, cut it in steaks cross-wise of the fish, about an inch and a half thick

2. 2

   Sprinkle a little salt over them, and let them stand two hours

3. 3

   Cut into dice a pound of salt fat pork, fry out all the fat from them and remove the crisp bits of pork

4. 4

   Put the codfish steaks in a pan of corn meal, dredge them with it

5. 5

   When the pork fat is smoking hot, fry the steaks in it to a dark brown color on both sides

6. 6

   Squeeze over them a little lemon juice, add a dash of freshly ground pepper

7. 7

   Serve with hot, old-fashioned, well-buttered Johnny Cake