Yeu (Fish Cakes)

Origin: Chicago, Illinois

Source: Sara Bosse and Onoto Watanna (Winnifred Eaton), 1914

Ingredients

Instructions

  1. Take any dried fish and remove all bones and skin.
  2. Pound the fish to a powder.
  3. Mix one cup of the fish with a quarter pound of blanched almonds, also pounded, two cupfuls of dried and powdered rice flour, and half a teaspoonful of salt.
  4. Beat the whites of two eggs with a little cold water, enough to make a thin paste.
  5. Mix well all together.
  6. Roll very thin, cut into cakes, and bake in a hot oven in hot peanut oil for twenty minutes.
  7. Remove the cakes from the oil and drain on paper in a slow oven until the cakes are dry and crisp.

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