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Some Kitchen Kinks: Fried

Fried Salt Pork with Salt Codfish or "Salt-Fish Dinner." 1½ pound salt pork. 1 pound codfish. 2 cups of milk (skim milk will do). 4 tablespoonsful flour.

A speck of salt.

Cut the codfish into strips, soak in lukewarm water and then cook in water until tender but do not allow the water to come to the boiling point except for a very short time as prolonged boiling may make it tough. Cut the pork into one-fourth inch slices and cut several gashes in each piece. Fry very slowly until golden brown, and remove, pouring off the fat. Out of 4 tablespoons ful of the fat, the flour, and the milk make a white sauce. Dish up the codfish with pieces of pork around it and serve with boiled potatoes and beets. Some persons serve the pork, and the fat from it, in a gravy boat so it can be added as relished.