Provincetown Creamed Codfish - cooking recipe

Ingredients

2 cups salt cod fish, soaked overnight in several changes of water and cooked
1 tablespoon butter
1 tablespoon flour
1 cup milk, hot
1/8 teaspoon pepper
1 egg yolk, beaten

Preparation

Flake codfish.
Melt the butter, add flour and stir until well incorporated; add hot milk and pepper.
Stir over medium heat until boiling.
Add fish and beat well.
Add beaten egg yolk and stir well.
Serve at once.
**Variation: Add 3 hard-cooked eggs, chopped, to the creamed fish before filling the potato shells. Add mashed potato, brush with melted butter and place under hot broiler until golden.