Cut cold boiled codfish in pieces; then boil 8 small onions until soft; heat 2 tablespoonfuls of butter.

At the period of this narrative the settlement of New Hope had grown into a very considerable seaport town, doing an extremely handsome trade with the West Indies in cornmeal and dried codfish for sugar, molasses, and rum.

And coming to meet the outgoing cargo were long lines of unloaded goods being lined up as they arrivedhills of coal coming from England, sacks of cereal from the Black Sea, dried codfish from Newfoundland sounding like parchment skins as they thudded down on the dock, impregnating the atmosphere with their salty dust, and yellow lumber from Norway that still held a perfume of the pine woods.

So, to adjust things, I refrigerated the next letterwhich happened to be from 'Oraceto the temperature of codfish on an ice block.

Bacalas a la Viscaina Soak half a salt codfish over night.