Fish And Brewis Food

FISH AND BREWIS WITH SCRUNCHEONS

Steps:

• Place hard bread into a pot. Cover bread with several inches of cool water, place a lid on the pot, and soak 8 hours to overnight.
• Rinse salt cod under running cool water; place into a pot. Cover fish with several inches of cold water, place a lid on the pot, and soak in the refrigerator 8 hours to overnight.
• Add salt to soaked bread and bring just to a simmer over medium-low heat and simmer for 2 minutes. Drain immediately; cover to keep warm.
• Drain fish and cover with fresh water; bring to a boil. Cook until fish is opaque and flakes easily with a fork, about 20 minutes. Drain fish; remove any bones. Stir fish into prepared hard bread.
• Cook and stir fatback in a frying pan over medium heat until golden brown, about 10 minutes. Pour fatback and drippings over fish and bread mixture. Stir gently just to combine; serve immediately.

FISH AND BREWIS

Steps:

• Soak hard bread overnight in cold water Soak cod overnight in large pot of water as well.
• In the morning, change water on cod again.
• When ready to eat, place potatoes in the same pot as the cod and simmer gently until cooked (about 20-30 minutes) Remove from heat and drain.
• Heat hard bread slowly until it comes to a boil and drain.
• There are two toppings with Fish and Brewis, Drawn butter and Scrunchins Drawn Butter Melt butter Add onions and fry until soft Add Water, bring to a boil and then add either flour or cornstarch to thicken.
• Scrunchins Place salt pork in frying pan.
• Heat over medium heat until grease is drawn from the salt pork.
• Add onions and then cook until tender.

TRADITIONAL NEWFOUNDLAND FISH & BREWIS

Steps:

• 1 - Soak over night in separate bowls your salt cod fish and hard bread, drain water from both before adding to saucepan. 2 - In a medium saucepan add water and start the boil on your potatoes about 15 minutes or fork tender, in a frying pan start frying your pieces of fat pork, butter or fatty bacon. When your fat pork starts to fry add your chopped onions continue frying until golden brown. 3 - In another saucepan add water and start your salt cod fish boiling for 10 to 15 minutes, then when your potatoes have boiled remove them from the pot and scoop into a bowl keeping the water for hard bread. 4 - Before adding soaked hard bread to the potato water, drain water from the soaked hard bread, then add hard bread to potato hot water and turn off the heat keep soaked hard bread in HOT water for 5 to 15 minutes or until ready to use. 5- Only use boneless salt cod, when salt cod fish have cooked remove from saucepan and flake apart, now this is when you start to add everything together, potatoes, fish, hard bread, fried onions and fat pork or bacon, salt and pepper to taste, fold everything together then serve. This is just a quick recipe for making fish and Brewis. In Newfoundland and Labrador on Christmas Eve, most everyone made this on Christmas Eve. This was a old tradition that have been forgotten over our generations, hopefully we can keep it alive by making this dish our house old favourite.