Fish Balls (Mrs. Fleming's Recipe)
Origin: Cape Town, South Africa
Source: Hildagonda J. Duckitt, 1891
Ingredients
- 1 small silver fish
- 1 crumb of penny roll
- 1 small piece onion
- milk
- 1 egg
- parsley
- pepper
- salt
- bread-crumbs
- lard or dripping
Instructions
- Soak the crumb of one penny roll in a little milk, then squeeze it quite dry.
- Put the small silver fish, soaked bread crumb, small piece of onion, parsley, pepper, and salt all through a mincing machine.
- Mix the minced ingredients with one egg.
- Roll the mixture into balls.
- Dip each ball in bread-crumbs and egg.
- Fry in boiling lard or dripping.