Salt fish (Trenton: buying, garden, to eat)

[Roadkill95]

What time of year do they salt the cod and hang it to dry on the clothes line?

[retiredtinbender]

I can't remember if there is a particular time of year to do it. I remember seeing it hanging on racks and sometimes on clothesline but for the life of me I can't remember what time of year. Seems to me it doesn't matter when just how. Get plenty of salt to cover it all and keep it out of the sign and high enough that the animals don't get it.

[namder1]

Seems like we had ours ready to eat by fall.

[Kiwiluver]

My Grandma would make codfish gravy and mashed potatoes. I have not thought about that for years 'till I saw this post! Anyone have a recipe?

[namder1]

did they use any other fish besides cod? I seem to remember another ......
What kind of salt? regular or rock?

[Kiwiluver]

namder 1, if your post is at me, I am fairly certain it was cod. It came in a wooden box. Gawd that stuff was good piled high on mashed potatoes.

[deerislesmile]

Some people use pollack instead of cod for the kind of dried fish that I know (it's like fish jerky).

[mainegrl2011]

My dad didn't hang it on a clothesline. My parents called it slack salted, dried fish. He laid the cod out on chicken wire apparatus fairly high off the ground and sometimes covered it with cheesecloth. I am familiar with using pollack, but I think my dad preferred cod. The time of the year needs to be sunny, warm and dry. I also remember going Downeast and buying dried fish skin and all. Just grab a fish protrusion and pull. Yum Yum....Now it seems all I can find is 2 oz in a plastic bag (which btw says Haddock + Salt and sometimes Cod + Salt) packaged by Quality Seafood, Trenton Maine for $4.99 per bag. I think it's dried "inside." There is probably a regulation now keeping it from being dried outside if it's being sold due to flies wanting to lay their eggs in it. Anyone know of anyone still selling the whole dried fish?

Try this when you get a chance, fresh garden peas, new potatoes, and dried fish...yum yum....makes a great supper.

[retiredtinbender]

Originally Posted by mainegrl2011

My dad didn't hang it on a clothesline. My parents called it slack salted, dried fish. He laid the cod out on chicken wire apparatus fairly high off the ground and sometimes covered it with cheesecloth. I am familiar with using pollack, but I think my dad preferred cod. The time of the year needs to be sunny, warm and dry. I also remember going Downeast and buying dried fish skin and all. Just grab a fish protrusion and pull. Yum Yum....Now it seems all I can find is 2 oz in a plastic bag (which btw says Haddock + Salt and sometimes Cod + Salt) packaged by Quality Seafood, Trenton Maine for $4.99 per bag. I think it's dried "inside." There is probably a regulation now keeping it from being dried outside if it's being sold due to flies wanting to lay their eggs in it. Anyone know of anyone still selling the whole dried fish?

Try this when you get a chance, fresh garden peas, new potatoes, and dried fish...yum yum....makes a great supper.

Throw in some fresh beet greens and it sounds like my mother's. Thanks for the memory.

[namder1]

No, ours didn't come in a box, just a whole fillet. Man it was salty and good....probably wouldn't healp my BP theses days tho...