BS: Fish cake recipes

Subject: BS: Fish cake recipes
From: gnu
Date: 24 Nov 10 - 03:23 PM

Salt cod is out now. Whaddya got? For what it's worth, I am partial to haddock.

Subject: RE: BS: Fish cake recipes
From: GUEST,999
Date: 24 Nov 10 - 03:39 PM

You`ve heard the rock song, ``Hake, haddock and sole``, right.

Subject: RE: BS: Fish cake recipes
From: maeve
Date: 24 Nov 10 - 04:15 PM

This looks good, gnu: http://www.bbcgoodfood.com/recipes/2239/ultimate-fish-cakes

Subject: RE: BS: Fish cake recipes
From: lefthanded guitar
Date: 24 Nov 10 - 04:33 PM

Grew up with this one, no measurements cause we just sora threw it together:

Mis:
Cooked salmon

Chopped onions( and chopped green peppers too, if you like them, and they happen to be hanging around in the fridge)

Bread crumbs

Beaten egg(s)

roll into fishcakes and fry in a thin layer of Canola oil, or butter.

Subject: RE: BS: Fish cake recipes
From: gnu
Date: 24 Nov 10 - 04:36 PM

Onions... oh, I WISH. Mum can't handle onions anymore. I, however, can fry up a half dozen and just inhale them.

Subject: RE: BS: Fish cake recipes
From: GUEST
Date: 24 Nov 10 - 05:40 PM

Some neat recipes at a google of

Fish Cake Recipes - Allrecipes.com

Subject: RE: BS: Fish cake recipes
From: maeve
Date: 24 Nov 10 - 05:46 PM

This looks very tasty, gnu, and does not include onions.
http://www.crazysquirrel.com/recipes/fish/haddock-cake.jspx

Subject: RE: BS: Fish cake recipes
From: Beer
Date: 24 Nov 10 - 06:12 PM

I have a friend that always asks if I need more Chicken Haddie. He goes to P.E.I. very often and this is what I have been using. As a child Mum use to mix a can of Lobster paste with it to make sandwiches. I'm thinking of adding a can to the Haddie when I make my next fish cakes.
Ad.

Subject: RE: BS: Fish cake recipes
From: GUEST,Patsy
Date: 25 Nov 10 - 05:12 AM

Tinned tuna put into fishcakes isn't too bad for quickness.

Subject: RE: BS: Fish cake recipes
From: Ed T
Date: 25 Nov 10 - 05:53 AM

Here is one.I normally use corn flake crumbs (you can buy it at stores) instead of cracker crumbs, I like the outside crispy.I also like plenty of black pepper. (And I eat 'em with green tomato chow pickles. But, it's hard to find the good stuff).

Can your mother handle onion powder? It could be substituted.

fish cakes


GREEN TOMATO CHOW   

6 quarts green tomatoes
3 quarts onions
Salt
3 c. vinegar
1/2 c. pickling spice
7 c. white sugar

Slice the green tomatoes and onions. Add salt and let stand overnight. In the morning, drain off the juice. Add the vinegar, pickling spice and white sugar. (Wrap the pickling spice in cheese cloth.) Cook until soft. Make sure that you remove the bag of pickling spice. Bottle hot. )www.cooks.com/rec/view/0,1610,156190)

Subject: RE: BS: Fish cake recipes
From: GUEST,HiLo
Date: 30 Nov 10 - 09:13 AM

I can't imagine fishcakes withiut salt cod ! Never heard of them made with tinned fish. Does anyone else make them with cod ?

Subject: RE: BS: Fish cake recipes
From: Bat Goddess
Date: 30 Nov 10 - 10:07 AM

I prefer finnan haddie, but it's almost impossible to get around here (Portsmouth, NH) anymore (alas!). Tom makes a fantastic creamed finnan haddie (with just a touch of smoky single malt) and I desperately miss kedgeree -- hot, cold, breakfast, lunch or dinner.

Linn

Subject: RE: BS: Fish cake recipes
From: GUEST,Patsy
Date: 30 Nov 10 - 10:22 AM

I made some at school in the 70's with cod and of all the fish it is still my favourite for consistency. But the other day when eating out I had salmon fishcakes with a little monteray jack cheese (I think that is how you spell it). They had a golden crispy coating really delicious. If anyone has a recipe for salmon ones I would be grateful.

Tinned fish was something I got from my ex-mother to use up tuna or sardines already in the cupboard. They aren't as appetising looking as fresh fish I admit but it tastes ok.

Subject: RE: BS: Fish cake recipes
From: gnu
Date: 30 Nov 10 - 01:14 PM

HiLo... Salt cod for me, except for the salt. Ergo my first post. >;-(

Subject: RE: BS: Fish cake recipes
From: Geoff the Duck
Date: 30 Nov 10 - 01:19 PM

Never understood why people want to make fish cakes by mashing up potatoes and fish with parsley and coating it with breadcrumbs.
As anyone who has been to a Bradford (West Yorkshire, England) fish and chip shop knows, a cake is made from layers of sliced potato and the bits of fish trimmed off the main fish fillets before they are battered and cooked. The layered fish and potato form flat cakes about an inch thick and shaped somewhere between round and oval with a diameter of four to six inches. It is then dipped in batter and deep fried.
It is known as a fish cake in other parts of West Yorkshire, although in Keighley the same item would be known as a Scone.
Quack!
Geoff.

Subject: RE: BS: Fish cake recipes
From: Bob the Postman
Date: 30 Nov 10 - 01:42 PM

can of salmon
chopped onion, garlic, and ginger
curry paste or similar
an egg
some corn meal

mix it all up and let it sit for a while so the corn meal can absorb the salmon juice

fry little spoonfuls for fish balls, big spoonfuls for fish cakes, or the whole shitteree for fish bannock

the bannock must be flipped pancake style by shuffling the pan back and forth to loosen the crust from the pan and then tossing the loaf into the air, deftly catching it as it descends

serve with freshly made Coleman's mustard

Subject: RE: BS: Fish cake recipes
From: gnu
Date: 30 Nov 10 - 07:15 PM

Ducky2... deep fried... yech! Bob T P... mustard.... yech!

Oh dear... yechhhhh. Sorry. I'll consider trying... no, I won't. Sorry. Enjoy, but that don't... yechhh.

Subject: RE: BS: Fish cake recipes
From: Raggytash
Date: 30 Nov 10 - 09:12 PM

When I worked in hospital catering our "bible" (book of recipes with large quantities) stated that we needed two buckets of steam in our fishcakes, needless to say new apprentices were duly sent to the boilermen armed with buckets and lids only to be berrated on their returned because they had let the steam escape. Never failed because it was "written" in the "bible"

Subject: RE: BS: Fish cake recipes
From: gnu
Date: 01 Dec 10 - 02:57 PM

Raggy... good one.

Subject: RE: BS: Fish cake recipes
From: The Fooles Troupe
Date: 02 Dec 10 - 03:17 AM

Geoff the Duck

We here in Australia have a favourite 'trad' food item - 'potato scallops' which is just the slice of a very large potatoes cooked in batter, no extra material.

Available from almost any fish & chip shop and most hot box take aways - been difficult to find retail packs of them. Often a preference to chips.wedges, etc with a piece of fish.

Easily homemade, but are time consuming, and some 'wastage' which can be mashed, of course.

Subject: RE: BS: Fish cake recipes
From: GUEST,Patsy
Date: 02 Dec 10 - 03:28 AM

This is kind of religious theme, the story of the loaves and five fishes, I have always had this theory that Jesus made fish cakes and/or fish soup to cater for the masses of people he had to help to feed.

When I was small I would never touch a fishcake only fish fingers. I think it was the thought of everything mushed up together that made me have an aversion to it but I grew to like them in adulthood. All the recipes above sound really good to me especially Bob the Postman's recipe with garlic and ginger. The recipe Geoff mentioned dipped in batter and fried would be a nice alternative too if they could be fried in olive oil? If you don't have fried food too often once in a while wouldn't hurt.

Subject: RE: BS: Fish cake recipes
From: Geoff the Duck
Date: 02 Dec 10 - 11:03 AM

Foolestroupe- potato scallops are also known in our area. Some chip shops sell them although not always under that name.
My mum used to serve up home made ones as the potato part of some meals. If you think about it, in Indian food, it would be slightly spiced batter as an aloo pakora.
Quack!
GtD.

Subject: RE: BS: Fish cake recipes
From: EBarnacle
Date: 03 Dec 10 - 11:00 AM

I have found that matzoh meal, buckwheat flower or rice flower are interesting alternatives to corn meal.

Subject: RE: BS: Fish cake recipes
From: Bob the Postman
Date: 03 Dec 10 - 06:42 PM

gnuser, check it out. Coleman's mustard--wassabi for the working class. Medicinal too, if you don't have access to actual medicine.

Subject: RE: BS: Fish cake recipes
From: gnu
Date: 03 Dec 10 - 07:30 PM

Oh... hot mustard type of stuff... yeecch. I EVEN MORE don't like hot spices. I have a refridgerator. I can eat fresh veggies and fruit and meat with spices like onion and summer savory and such.

Yes, bland by most standards but easy on the constitution.