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Fish (salt) Pie

Take a thick piece of salt fish, and let it soak in cold water overnight. Boil it well, take it up, remove the bones and skin, and set it on a fish-drainer to get cold. Boil four eggs hard, shell them and slice them very thin; slice the same quantity of onions very thin; line the bottom of a pie-dish with a layer of potatoes also thinly sliced, then a layer of onions, then of fish, then of eggs, and so on in rotation until the dish is full, seasoning each layer with a little pepper. Mix a tea-spoonful of made mustard, the same of essence of anchovy, and a little ketchup in a gill of cold water, pour this over the contents, put on top one ounce of butter broken into small bits; cover with puff paste, and bake for one hour. Probable cost, 2s.