This section is from the book "Cooking For Profit", by Jessup Whitehead. Also available from Amazon: Cooking for Profit.
Chop a pound of salt codfish in pieces size of walnuts, steep them a few hours to freshen, boil in water, throw that away and boil again in fresh water and milk; put in as many potatoes as there are pieces of fish, also a small onion, lump of utter, pepper, and thicken like white sauce with flour.
 
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