Salt Cod Fish - Creole Style - cooking recipe

Ingredients

1 small onion, sliced
2 tomatoes, peeled & quartered
1 green pepper, de seeded & chopped
2 ounces butter or 2 ounces bacon fat
8 ounces cooked salt fish, flaked
salt & pepper
8 ounces cooked yams or 8 ounces english potatoes, sliced
2 ounces butter
1/2 pint milk (U.S 1 1/4 cups)
2 teaspoons parsley

Preparation

TO PREPARE SALT FISH: soak salt fish overnight in cold water, drain. Put into a saucepan, covered with fresh cold water, bring to the boil & simmer for about 15 minutes.
Fry the onion, tomatoes & pepper in heated lard or bacon fat.
Add the fish & mix thoroughly.
Season to taste.
Arrange the yam or potato slices to cover the bottom and sides of a greased ovenproof dish.
Pile in the fish mixture.
Dot with butter & milk.
Sprinkle with parsley & bake in a moderately hot oven for 20 minutes (375\u00b0 Gas Mark 5).